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The editors teach postgraduate and undergraduate courses on climate change adaptation in regional planning and landscape architecture disciplines at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the American University of Beirut. The final paper identifies urban planning and landscape design methods that publicly visualise local climate change effects so citizens can also appreciate how this global issue relates directly to the local urban form. This edited book explains the necessity for urban planners to have a role in addressing climate change and clarifies how the urban form is affected by global climate change. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Local Climate Action Planning," by Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve and Tammy L. Seal.

The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change confirmed that the controversial reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation scheme, known as REDD+, will play a central role in the post-2020 climate regime. This review essay considers a recent Handbook dedicated to exploring the relationship between REDD+ and different areas of international law, which comprehensively brings together expertise on many diverse areas of international legal practice, including trade and investment, contractual and fiduciary risk as well as human rights considerations. While this valuable collection will surely become an indispensable 'toolbox' for practitioners and academics working on questions pertaining to REDD+, this review highlights some of the more complex methodological and political questions REDD+ raises and their implications for how REDD+ is characterized and its effects understood. It foregrounds the critiques by grassroots indigenous and climate justice activists, some of whom have argued that REDD+ represents a form of 'green grabbing' or 'CO2onialism'. Additionally, it suggests that further investigation is needed into how REDD+ establishes, stabilizes and consolidates new forms of power relations and modes of authority as well greater consideration of the distributional consequences of carbon markets and their allocations of differentiated privileges, obligations and responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gernot Wagner of Harvard University and New York University reviews "Game Theory and Climate Change," by Parkash Chander. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: "Explains how a game-theoretic approach to the issue of climate change—along with ecological science and economics—can enable international agreements in support of climate-change mitigation strategies." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carlo Fezzi of University of East Anglia and University of California, San Diego reviews, 'Valuing Climate Change Mitigation: Applying Stated Preferences in the Presence of Uncertainty' by Sonia Akter and Jeff Bennett. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: 'Explores the impact of introducing scenario uncertainty, policy uncertainty, and preference uncertainty into stated preference-generated estimates of the benefits of climate change mitigation. Discusses climate change and uncertainty; uncertainty and stated preference techniques-a conceptual overview; uncertainty and stated preference techniques in practice; data; public perceptions, understanding, and knowledge of climate change; climate change uncertainty and contingent valuation welfare estimates; the role of global cooperation; climate change uncertainty and choice experiment welfare estimates; and determinants of preference uncertainty. Akter is with the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ. Bennett is Professor of Environmental Management in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]