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Climate Change and Disadvantaged Communities by Sk Ajim Ali (Hardback)
£150.00
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781041027201
Published:
09 Dec 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
400 pages
Dimensions:
254mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
Author:
This book explores the uneven impacts of climate change and how it affects the lives and livelihoods of climate-disadvantaged communities and offers insights on conceptual frameworks to help vulnerable communities adapt and become more resilient to climate impacts. It includes real-life examples with challenges and actionable suggestions.
As climate change accelerates, so does the urgency to understand and address its unequal impacts. This book explores the uneven impacts of climate change and how it affects the lives and livelihoods of climate-disadvantaged communities by highlighting the specific challenges they face, such as heatwaves, droughts, flooding, health issues, and economic losses. It explains why vulnerable populations are more at risk due to factors such as lack of infrastructure, poverty, and limited access to resources. The book offers insights on conceptual frameworks to help vulnerable communities adapt and become more resilient to climate impacts. Real-life examples with challenges and actionable suggestions aim to inform policymakers and the public about the urgent need for targeted initiatives.Features Provides a comprehensive examination of how marginalized groups, from indigenous populations in the Niyamgiri Hills to urban slum dwellers in Asia, are disproportionately affected by climate change and what can be done to mitigate these impacts. Includes practical examples from different countries to help understand the intersection between climate change and social inequality. Utilizes advanced technologies and provides cutting-edge tools such as geospatial maps and diagrams for modelling climate threats and predicting climate-related challenges. Provides a roadmap for more resilient and inclusive future strategies. Highlights interdisciplinary discussions and contributions by various stakeholders to reach different audiences and offer regional problem-solving opportunities. This book serves as a valuable resource for a wide audience, including climate scientists, geographers, ecologists, geologists, urban planners, environmentalists, research scholars, and policymakers engaged in the fields of environmental management, climate justice, and sustainable development. By featuring the voices and experiences of disadvantaged communities, this book contributes meaningfully to the ongoing debates of climate justice, sustainable development, and equitable adaptation pathways.
About the Author: Sk Ajim Ali was awarded his Ph.D. degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Currently he is working remotely as a Research Associate and affiliated with the Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, UK. He has more than four years of research experience and contributed more than 50 scientific research papers on geospatial modeling, and geohazards vulnerabilities. His focus areas of research interest include disaster management, climate change, and public health.Quoc Bao Pham is currently working as an Assistant professor at Faculty of Natural Science, Institute of Earth Science, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He has more than eight years of research experience in hydrology, GIS and Remote Sensing. His research interests are water resources engineering, applied machine learning, climate change, hydrology, remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis.Yunqing Xuan is a civil engineer by training but at the same time a hydrometeorologist with a range of interdisciplinary research interests in modelling hydrological processes interfacing with atmosphere and societies. He is currently working as an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Swansea University, Swansea, UK. He has over 20 years of research experience and leadership in hydrometeorological modelling and forecasting, numerical weather and climate modelling, predictability, uncertainty, climatic extremes, and computational methods in geosciences. Additionally, he is a founding member and operator of the Welsh Local Centre of the Royal Meteorological Society.
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