TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 51, Issue 3 (September 2008)

Climate Justice and Development

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Upfront

Editorial: Walk the Talk – Putting climate justice into action FREE

Underlines the importance of climate justice as a strategy to change current economic development processes

Wendy Harcourt

Development 51: 307-309; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.38

Guest Editorial: Climate Action with a Human Face

Presents the core issues for climate change and development

Tariq Banuri

Development 51: 310-316; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.41

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Thematic Section: Climate Rights and Wrongs

Climate Change, Social Justice and Development

Discusses the implications of climate change for social justice and the prospects for more sustainable development pathways

Terry Barker, S cedilerban Scrieciu and David Taylor

Development 51: 317-324; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.33

Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces

Presents four broad principles that are fundamental to a better analysis of climate economics

Frank Ackerman

Development 51: 325-331; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.34

Climate Change and Human Rights

Makes the case that cuts in fossil fuel use are imperative not only to protect the atmosphere but also to protect human rights

Wolfgang Sachs

Development 51: 332-337; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.35

Global Environmental Change and the Challenge of Sustainability

Highlights several initiatives organized by Earth System Science Partnership where scientists, governments, public and private institutions and civil society are trying to work together towards an ethical framework for global stewardship

Gianfranco Bologna

Development 51: 338-343; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.26

Climate Injustice and Development: A capability perspective

Shows how climate injustice is a pervasive feature of current climate change problems

Flavio Comim

Development 51: 344-349; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.36

Market Politics and Climate Change

Argues that the structure and politics of national energy markets poses a major obstacle to finding and implementing solutions to the problem posed by climate change

Barbara Harriss-White

Development 51: 350-358; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.25

Carbon Trading, Climate Justice and the Production of Ignorance: Ten examples

Sketches ten processes of ignorance-creation facilitated by the new carbon markets, focusing particularly on the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

Larry Lohmann

Development 51: 359-365; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.27

Adaptation as 'Climate-Smart' Development

Points out that adaptation efforts have led to climate scenarios over vast spatial scales leading primarily to general statements about the need to manage long-term impacts rather than reflecting on the lives of the poor and marginal communities

Shiv Someshwar

Development 51: 366-374; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.31

What Next? Climate change, technology and development

Warns that we need to look carefully at the risks of the new technologies and what is at stake

Niclas Hällström

Development 51: 375-381; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.37

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Dialogue: Global Policymaking on Climate Change

Climate, Scarcities and Development

Reflects on the policy responses required to counter the dire consequences of climate change

Jan Pronk

Development 51: 382-386; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.28

Governing in a World of Climate Change

Calls for scientists to be more engaged in the public policymaking required for the globe to cope with climate change

Robert J Berg

Development 51: 387-389; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.29

Resilience and 'Climatizing' Development: Examples and policy implications

Proposes a resilience perspective towards more successful livelihoods transformations in the face of climate change

Emily Boyd, Henny Osbahr, Polly J Ericksen, Emma L Tompkins, Maria Carmen Lemos and Fiona Miller

Development 51: 390-396; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.32

The Political Economy of UNFCCC's Bali Climate Conference: A roadmap to climate commercialization

Reviews the key elements of UNFCCC Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia, December 2007

M D Shamsuddoha and Rezaul Karim Chowdhury

Development 51: 397-402; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.43

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Local/Global Encounters: Impacts of Climate Change

Vulnerability and Adaptation to the Health Impacts of Climate Change

Asks that policymakers integrate health vulnerabilities into climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies

Antonio Postigo

Development 51: 403-408; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.44

History and Future of Renewable Solar Energy

Considers whether renewable solar energy could power the world in the third millennium?

Cesare Silvi

Development 51: 409-414; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.45

Water Scarcity Under a Changing Climate in Ghana: Options for livelihoods adaptation

Looks at the effects of climate change and variability on water availability in Ghana

Benjamin Apraku Gyampoh, Monica Idinoba and Steve Amisah

Development 51: 415-417; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.46

Indigenous Responses to Water Policymaking in Australia

Demonstrates the way in which the Aboriginal community, Yarilena, situated in an arid and remote region of South Australia, met the challenge of water shortage

Eileen Willis, Meryl Pearce, Carmel McCarthy, Fiona Ryan and Ben Wadham

Development 51: 418-424; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.30

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Window on the World

Window on the World FREE

Gives short descriptive entries of key organizations working on climate change

Compiled by Sonja Cappello

Development 51: 425-429; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.47

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Book Shelf

Book Shelf

Presents an annotated list of latest books on climate change, environment and development

Compiled by Sonja Cappello

Development 51: 430-431; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.40

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Who's Who

Who's Who

Lists the contacts for the contributors of this issue

Development 51: 432-436; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.42

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Last Word: Climate Justice and the Convention for Biological Diversity

Climate Change and the Convention for Biological Diversity

Civil society groups warn that the Convention on Biological Diversity has increasingly allowed itself to be influenced by business interests

Development 51: 437; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.39