About the Book
Making Climate Compatible Development Happen introduces readers to the concept of climate compatible development (CCD) through exploring what it might look like, how it could be achieved in practice and identifying challenges and dilemmas raised by CCD. The book brings together research that explores the assumptions underlying CCD and applies the concept in a range of geographic and sectoral settings.
The volume makes a significant contribution to the theorisation and evidence-base for how development efforts can be made more climate resilient and with lower greenhouse gas emissions than a ‘business as usual’ approach. It provides critical reflections on the vision and conceptualisation of CCD, exploring how to encourage it, and what trade-offs and challenges may be encountered. The contributions discuss the feasibility of achieving CCD, mechanisms that may support progress towards it, challenges that may be experienced and the roles of, and impacts on, different stakeholder groups. Following a critical reflection on the concept of CCD, the potential nature of, and barriers to, CCD, it is examined in relation to agriculture, renewable energy, forestry, pastoralism, coastal areas and fisheries, with case studies taken from countries including Ghana, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Mozambique and Peru.
The book provides a valuable cross-sectoral and international critical reflection on the theory and practice of CCD, and will be a resource for postgraduates, established scholars and undergraduates from any social science discipline, policymakers and practitioners studying or working on areas related to the interface between environment (climate change) and international development.
Table of Contents:
List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesList of ContributorsForeword?,Conceptualising Climate Compatible Development, Fiona NunanReconsidering Climate Compatible Development as a New Development Landscape in southern Africa , Lindsay C. Stringer, Susannah M. Sallu, Andrew J. Dougill, Benjamin Wood and Lisa FicklinClosing the Knowledge Gaps on Gender and Climate Change for CCD , E. Lisa F. Schipper, Virginie Le Masson, Lara Langston and Sebastian KratzerClimate-Smart Agriculture: A critical review, Irina Arakelyan, Dominic Moran and Anita WrefordClimate Change and African Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential of Research and Advisory Services, John MortonChapter 6 Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya, Jon Phillips, Peter Newell and Ana PueyoDebunking free market myths: Transforming pro-poor, sustainable energy access for climate compatible development, David Ockwell, Rob Byrne, Kevin Urama, Nicholas Ozor, Edith Kirumba, Adrian Ely, Sarah Becker and Lorenz GollwitzerThe Political Economy of REDD + in Mozambique: Implications for Climate Compatible Development , Julian Quan, Lars Otto Naess, Andrew Newsham, Almeida Sitoe, and María Corrál FernandezCoping with climate extremes in Mongolian pastoral communities, Dennis Ojima, Chuluun Togtokh, Kathleen A. Galvin, Kelly Hopping, Tyler Beeton, Tungalag Ulambayar, Batsukh Narantuya and M. AltanbaganaEnabling Climate Compatible Development in the coastal region of Kenya , Fiona Nunan and Caroline Wanjiru A political economy of artisanal fisheries and climate change in Ghana, Thomas Tanner, Adelina Mensah, Elaine T. Lawson, Chris Gordon, Rachel Godfrey-Wood and Terry CannonProspects and challenges for climate compatible development, Fiona NunanIndex
About the Author :
Fiona Nunan is Senior Lecturer and Director of the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Review :
"This is an important book on an important topic. Economic development in the 21st century has to factor in the risks of climate change and the need to reduce emissions. This book offers a lucid introduction to climate compatible development."
Sam Fankhauser, Co-Director at Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
"In a rapidly evolving field bursting with overlapping concepts and integrative frameworks this book provides an excellent critical overview of current thinking. It captures very well a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives in a development context to address what has been described as the ultimate interdisciplinary challenge - climate change. The book very effectively achieves, in analytical terms, what Climate Compatible Development aims to achieve in practice: integration of development, adaptation and mitigation. It is an excellent blend of theory and real-world examples."
Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
