Climate change in Central Asia : decarbonization, energy transition and climate policy / Rahat Sabyrbekov, Indra Overland, Roman Vakulchuk, editors

Front Matter .-- Introduction to Climate Change in Central Asia / Rahat Sabyrbekov, Indra Overland, Roman Vakulchuk .-- Climate Research on Central Asia: State of the Art .-- Front Matter .-- Climate Change: A Growing Threat for Central Asia / Anne Sophie Daloz .-- Climate Change Science and Policy in Central Asia: Current Situation and Future Perspectives / Alisher Mirzabaev .-- Central Asian Decarbonisation Pathways and Carbon Pricing .-- Front Matter .-- Central Asian Climate Policy Pledges Under the Paris Agreement: Can They Be Fulfilled? / Rahat Sabyrbekov, Indra Overland, Roman Vakulchuk .-- Decarbonisation Opportunities and Emerging Carbon Pricing Instruments in Central Asia / Gulim Abdi, Nurkhat Zhakiyev, Shynar Toilybayeva .-- Energy Transition in Central Asia .-- Front Matter .-- Energy Transition in Central Asia: A Systematic Literature Review / Burulcha Sulaimanova, Indra Overland, Rahat Sabyrbekov, Roman Vakulchuk .-- A ‘Steppe’ into the Void: Central Asia in the Post-oil World / Morena Skalamera .-- Towards a Geoeconomics of Energy Transition in Central Asia’s Hydrocarbon-Producing .—Countries / Yana Zabanova .-- Local Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Central Asia .-- Front Matter .-- The Dual Relationship Between Human Mobility and Climate Change in Central Asia: Tackling the Vulnerability of Mobility Infrastructure and Transport-Related Environmental Issues / Suzy Blondin .-- A Gendered Approach to Understanding Climate Change Impacts in Rural Kyrgyzstan / Karina Standal, Anne Sophie Daloz, Elena Kim .-- Climate Change Awareness, Norms and Stakeholders in Central Asia .-- Front Matter .-- The Institutionalisation of Environmentalism in Central Asia / Filippo Costa Buranelli.-- The Importance of Boosting Societal Resilience in the Fight Against Climate Change in Central Asia / Fabienne Bossuyt .--The Culture of Recycling, Re-use and Reduction: Eco-Activism and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia / Aliya Tskhay

This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the region. Each chapter makes an important contribution to social science scholarship on climate change and decarbonization in Central Asia. Topics include decarbonization opportunities, carbon pricing instruments, the geo-economics of the energy transition, the relationship between human mobility and climate change. The book thus offers valuable insights for both academics and policymakers