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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Data Notes -- Main Messages -- Overview: Changing the Climate for Development -- The case for action -- A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together, and act differently -- Making it happen: New pressures, new instruments, and new resources -- 1 Understanding the Links between Climate Change and Development -- Unmitigated climate change is incompatible with sustainable development -- Evaluating the tradeoffs -- The costs of delaying the global mitigation effort -- Seizing the moment: Immediate stimulus and long-term transformations -- Focus A: The Science of Climate Change -- Part One -- 2 Reducing Human Vulnerability: Helping People Help Themselves -- Adaptive management: Living with change -- Managing physical risks: Avoiding the avoidable -- Managing financial risks: Flexible instruments for contingencies -- Managing social risks: Empower communities to protect themselves -- Looking ahead to 2050: Which world? -- Focus B: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate -- 3 Managing Land and Water to Feed Nine Billion People and Protect Natural Systems -- Put in place the fundamentals for natural resource management -- Produce more from water and protect it better -- Producing more in agriculture while protecting the environment -- Produce more and protect better in fisheries and aquaculture -- Building flexible international agreements -- Reliable information is fundamental for good natural resource management -- Pricing carbon, food, and energy could be the springboard -- 4 Energizing Development without Compromising the Climate -- Balancing competing objectives -- Where the world needs to go: Transformation to a sustainable energy future -- Realizing the savings from energy efficiency -- Scaling up existing low-carbon technologies.

This has been an active year in the area of housing and community development, with many of the recent changes oriented toward coping with a fluctuating housing finance market or assessing the effect of increased governmental activity in many sectors upon private rights and causes of action. The first section by the members of the Committee on Housing and Community Development focuses upon recent changes in federal regulations dealing with the private sector, more specifically the fundamental change in enforcement of "due-on-sale" clauses. The second section in this article examines new policies relating to transfers of the ownership of housing projects encumbered by mortgage loans insured or held by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The third section analyzes a new trend in the eminent domain powers of community redevelopment agencies: the ability to choose between competing proposals of owner participants notwithstanding one owner's right to participation. The final section briefly reports on the progress of the Governmental Leasing Act of 1983 in the House and Senate.

Der Planungsminister Pakistans betont, daß die menschlichen Lebensbedingungen sich selbst bei Zuwachs des Bruttosozialprodukts verschlechtern können. Er diskutiert die konkreten Anforderungen an ein wirtschaftliches Anpassungsprogramm, das die Verbesserung der Lebenssituation der Menschen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Betroffen sind politische Entscheidungsprozesse auf nationaler Ebene. (DSE)

This article explores the ways in which some faith-based organizations, basing their work on notions of social justice, may offer a model for development that shifts the discourse from one that is narrowly focuses on projects and outcomes to one that considers the fundamental questions of how people live. Drawing on themes from liberation theology, their discourse questions the notion of poverty even as they seek to ameliorate human suffering. Based on field research with two Catholic NGOs in Argentina, this paper considers the ways in which some religious organizations employ a discourse based on a holistic notion of "development."