Climate change and sustainable development: expanding the options

By R. Swart, John Robinson, Stewart J. Cohen. 2003

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Abstract Climate change and sustainable development have been addressed in largely separate circles in both research and policy. Nevertheless, there are strong linkages between the two in both realms. This paper focuses on the scientific linkages and discusses the opportunities they provide for integrated policy development, and the necessity to consider the risk of trade-offs. It is suggested that integration may not only provide new opportunities, but may even be a prerequisite for successfully addressing both issues. Since the feasibility of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations is dependent on general socio-economic development paths, climate policy responses should be fully placed in the larger context of technological and socio-economic policy development rather than be viewed as an add-on to those broader policies. The arguments are supported by a range of examples for various economic sectors in the areas of both mitigation and adaptation, largely drawn from IPCC’s Third Assessment Report.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Integrated strategies to reduce vulnerability and advance adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development (2007, background): “Increased focus on such integration within the research community has led to new work in this area (Kane and Shogren 2000; Goklany 2000, 2003; Wilbanks et al. 2003; Dang et al. 2003; Klein et al. 2003; Swart et al. 2003).”
Physical and economic bias in climate change research: a scientometric study of IPCC Third Assessment Report (2011, background): “2009) and differ on whether and how equity, development and sustainability should be addressed (Cohen et al. 1998; Najam et al. 2003; Swart et al. 2003).”
Climate-Resilient Pathways: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development (2014, background): “…dependency stemming from choices on mitigation, adaptation, and political interpretations and subsequent choices around “sustainable” development (Swart et al., 2003; Barker, 2008); and, in many cases, interventions have not delivered win-win results, which raises questions about the actual…”
ICT, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Panel of ASEAN (2014, background): “A plethora of literature (Banuri et al., 2001; Swart et al., 2003; Wilbanks, 2003) has introduced the relationship between sustainable development and climate change with the emphasis on the degree to which climate change mitigation can contribute to the sustainable development goals of the economy…”
Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures (2007, background): “…reduction, reducing vulnerability to climate change through adaptation measures is increasingly seen as a prerequisite for sustainable development (Cohen et al., 1998; Christie and Hanlon, 2001; Markandya and Halsnæs, 2002; Swart et al., 2003; Agrawala, 2004; Klein et al., 2007; Yohe et al., 2007).”
Adaptation and development: Livelihoods and climate change in Subarnabad, Bangladesh (2009, background): “Keywords: adaptation; Asia; Bangladesh; climate change; livelihoods; vulnerability”
Can the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) deliver (2011, background): “Several studies (Michaelis, 2003; Swart et al., 2003; Najam et al., 2003) have also suggested that there is a need for accelerated development in poor countries using alternative development paths and incorporating the ancillary benefits of climate change policies in order to attain so called…”
The clean development mechanism’s contribution to sustainable development: a review of the literature (2007, background): “literature (Cohen, Demeritt et al. 1998; Michaelis 2003; Najam, Rahman et al. 2003; Swart, Robinson et al. 2003 ).”
Tourism development and environmental degradation in the United States: evidence from wavelet-based analysis (2017, background): “Additionally, Wilbanks (2003) and Swart, Robinson, and Cohen (2003) have presented the association among sustainable improvement and climate variation by the importance on the degree to which climate change control can have so-called cobenefits.”