Climate Change, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Adaptation: Implications of Global Warming on the Economy

Mounting scientific evidence shows that Earth’s climate is dramatically changing due to the greenhouse emissions caused by human activities, notably by burning fossil fuels for energy production and transport.

Climate Change, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Adaptation: Implications of Global Warming on the Economy aims to provide one among many diverse responses to a growing sense of urgency fed by climate change and experienced by international institutions, governments, local authorities, and enterprises. It provides an interdisciplinary treatment of issues raised by climate change in connection with its implications for society, environment and economy, particularly at the company and the supply chain levels.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Business responses to climate change
• Climate change adaptation policies
• Climate change and supply chain operations
• Climate change evolution
• Climate change mitigation policies
• Global impacts of climate change
• Global Warming
• Handling uncertainty and risk
• Policy making under climate change
• The greenhouse effect