Overview
Presents the state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action in the rapidly changing landscape of international environmental finance
Provides an overview of independent evaluations carried out by leading international development organizations
Highlights common perspectives, identifies lessons learned and discusses methodological considerations on climate change and sustainable development
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Policy
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Climate Change Mitigation
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Climate Change Adaptation
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About this book
This book is open access under a Creative Commons license.
This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.
The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations. Important topics include how policies and organisations aim to achieve impact and how this is measured, whether climate change is mainstreamed into other development programs, and whether operations are meeting the urgency of climate change challenges.
The following sections focus on evaluation of climate change projects and policies as they link to development, from the perspective of international organisations, NGO’s, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, and academia. The authors share methodologies or approaches used to better understand problems and assess interventions, strategies and policies. They also share challenges encountered, what was done to solve these and lessons learned from evaluations. Collectively, the authors illustrate the importance of evaluation in providing evidence to guide policy change to informed decision-making.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
Editors: Juha I. Uitto, Jyotsna Puri, Rob D. van den Berg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43702-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43701-9Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82889-3Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43702-6Published: 11 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 355
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Management