Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Realizing the Opportunity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10890146
AutoresJohn Robinson (0000-0003-4559-5565), John A Robinson (0000-0001-8002-4237, Sustainability Institute, autor de correspondencia), Mike Bradley (Sustainability Institute, autor de correspondencia), Peter Busby, Peter A Busby (Sustainability Institute, autor de correspondencia), Denis Connor, D J Connor (Sustainability Institute, autor de correspondencia), Anne Murray (Sustainability Institute, autor de correspondencia), Bruce Sampson (autor de correspondencia), Wayne Soper (autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas2
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAMBIO (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209
EditorialAmerican Bryological and Lichenological Society (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1639/0044-7447(2006)035[0002:ccasdr]2.0.co;2
OpenAlexW4230880026
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

Manifold linkages exist between climate change and sustainable development. Although these are starting to receive attention in the climate exchange literature, the focus has typically been on examining sustainable development through a climate change lens, rather than vice versa. And there has been little systematic examination of how these linkages may be fostered in practice. This paper examines climate change through a sustainable development lens. To illustrate how this might change the approach to climate change issues, it reports on the findings of a panel of business, local government, and academic representatives in British Columbia, Canada, who were appointed to advise the provincial government on climate change policy. The panel found that sustainable development may offer a significantly more fruitful way to pursue climate policy goals than climate policy itself. The paper discusses subsequent climate change developments in the province and makes suggestions as how best to pursue such a sustainability approach in British Columbia and other jurisdictions.

Biology · Business · Climate change · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Sustainable development · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Ecology · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Environmental Science · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy