Facing an economic downturn today, policymakers
would like to regain the growth momentum, but there is an emerging realization that future growth needs to be different and of better
quality.
Climate change is the greatest price society is paying for decades of
environmental neglect. The impact of global warming is most visible in
the rising threat of climate-related natural disasters. Hazards of nature
have always been with us, but the growing incidence of floods, storms,
and droughts all across the world is putting a spotlight on the need for
action. As this book argues, it will be harder to sustain growth unless
the worst effects of climate change, notably natural calamities, are
averted. Sustainability, understood as meeting the needs of the present
without endangering future generations, is key to these efforts. Today,
as countries grapple with the perils of climate change, sustainability has
come to encompass a more mutually dependent set of environmental,
economic, and social goals.
The book’s focus on climate change and natural disasters is timely.
The Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction in 2015 in Japan set out the Sendai Framework for disaster
risk reduction for 2015–2030. Global initiatives are backing a new
development agenda for the next fifteen years with the launch of the
Sustainable Development Goals by member countries of the United
Nations. After decades of disappointment, action on climate change
is gaining momentum and traction, with a global deal on emissions
adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015.

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