This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

This article provides critical reflection on the notion of sustainable adaptation. It discusses
how the concept resonates with debates on sustainable development, and how the key …

Adverse impacts of climate change, development deficits and inequality exacerbate each
other. Existing vulnerabilities and inequalities intensify with adverse impacts of climate …

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its
impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling …

Poverty is widely understood to be a key factor that increases the propensity for individuals
and households to be harmed by climatic shocks and stresses. This review explores recent …

There is a growing scientific consensus on climate change and the need for adaptation, yet
an impasse on realizing development for the rural and urban poor. Emily Boyd et al. suggest …

The past three decades have seen an unprecedented increase in world living standards and
a fall in poverty across many fundamental dimensions. Increased confidence in what was …

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of lives across the world and has revealed
and worsened the social and economic inequalities that have emerged over the past several …

The debate about the relationship between adaptation to climate change and development
has been ongoing for over two decades. Adaptation is about risk reduction, the pursuit of …

Climate change poses the most significant foreseeable threat to the development of
humankind. Among the parts of the globe liable to be affected, the developing world is the …