TY - BOOK ID - 11268083 TI - On the poverty and welfare impacts of climate change : quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies PY - 2012 SN - 0821396110 0821396129 PB - Washington D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. KW - Income distribution -- Developing countries. KW - Poverty -- Developing countries. KW - Poverty. KW - Poverty KW - Income distribution KW - Climatic changes KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - Social aspects KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Climate change KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Environmental aspects KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change science KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11268083 AB - Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge poverty reduction efforts. On the Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies surveys the relevant research on how climate change may affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments' risk management programs.An evidence review examines three main strands of the literature. Unsurprisingly, the impa ER -