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Climate Change and Developmental Economies

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Adaptation; Kuznets curve; Mitigation; Sustainable development

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Climate Change: Climate change is defined as changes in the state of the climate variables that can be identified (by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period. Extended period in climate context implies three decades or even longer time scale (IPCC 2014). Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings and persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere and/or in land use (Stocker et al. 2013).

Adaptation:In the context of climate and climate-related extremes, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) defines adaptation as “the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or exploit benefit...

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  1. Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory (SDS Lab), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Lindsey Bressler, Kara Morgan, Allison Traylor, Hayden Henderson, Udit Bhatia, Babak Fard, Devashish Kumar & Auroop R. Ganguly

  2. Department of Economics, The University of Burdwan, 713104, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

    Rajarshi Majumder

  3. Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, 560 076, Bengaluru, India

    Sourav Mukherji

  4. Global Change Programme, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, 700032, Kolkata, India

    Joyashree Roy

  5. Resilient Cities Lab, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Matthias Ruth

  6. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Matthias Ruth

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  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

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Bressler, L. et al. (2017). Climate Change and Developmental Economies. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1635

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