Climate change poses a serious challenge to social and economic development. This report provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It also moves the discussion beyond cost estimation to the...

1. Climate-resilient development: an introduction / S. Fankhauser and T. Mcdermott -- Part I concepts -- 2. The role of climate in development / D. Castells-Quintana, M. Lopez-Uribe and T. Mcdermott -- 3. Poverty and climate change / S. Hallegatte, M. Bangalore, L. Bonzanigo, M. Fay, T. Kane, U....

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Sam Fankhauser (2017), 'Adaptation to Climate Change', Annual Review of Resource Economics, 9, October, 209-30 -- 2. Matthew E. Kahn (2016), 'The Climate Change Adaptation Literature', Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 10 (1), Winter,...