Climate Change and Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty Reduction

‘. . . a unified, useful and stimulating book which should act as a springboard for further work into what is a very topical and extremely important issue for everyone in the world, not just academics and policymakers. This book serves its intended audience but also deserves to be more widely read.’ — World Entrepreneurship Society

‘Too often, writings on climate change are placed into two categories: climate-change deniers, and climate-change supporters. What this timely and insightful collection of Mohamed Salih’s does, is to problematise the issue; taking the debate to a level where it desperately needs to be; asking the “thorny” questions of how do the politics and international relations of climate impact upon the most vulnerable; the least-affluent; the dwellers of the majority world. In short, Salih challenges us: “How did the climate change about climate-change”. The responses of his contributors are salient, to-the-point – sometimes disturbing – but always thought-provoking.’ — Timothy Doyle, Keele University, UK

‘Editing the proceedings of a symposium into a cogent and coherent book is no easy task. This book, a tribute to Professor Opschoor is no exception; with disperse contributions of some highly acclaimed authors covering a wide spectrum of themes. It is a credit to Professor Salih’s insight to string them together in the introductory chapter and entice the reader to read on. This book has food for thought on many fronts, reaching far beyond climate change, as did the oeuvre of Hans Opschoor. . . an instructive read.’ — Paul Vlek, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany