Routledge handbook of climate change and society

By:

Lever-Tracey, Consta

Contributor(s):

Lever-Tracy , Constance [edited by]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge 2010 LondonISBN:

9780415544764

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

304.25 ROU

Contents:

Preface : Copenhagen and after / Raymond Clémençon and Marcus Carson -- Climate change and society : an introduction / Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock -- The science of climate change : knowledge, uncertainty and risk / Barrie Pittock -- Climate change : complexity and collaboration between the science / Ian Welsh -- Organisations and global warming / Charles Perrow -- Capitalism versus nature : eco-socialist approaches to the climate crisis / Dennis Soron -- Ecological economics : the impact of unsustainable growth / Philip Lawn -- Ecological economics : consumption drivers and impacts / Inge Røpke -- Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change / Robin Leichenko, Adelle Thomas and Mark Barnes -- Ecological rationality, disaster, and the environmental education of leaders / Raymond Murphy -- Case study : floods in Mumbai / Monalisa Chatterjee -- Public opinion : a cross-national view / Steven R. Brechin -- Media presentations of climate change / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Joe Smith -- Case study : climate change reporting in Time magazine / Ray Loi -- Postscript / Constance Lever-Tracy -- Religion, worldview and climate change / Lee Levett-Olson -- Climate change denial : sources, actors and strategies / Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright -- Crises and opportunities / Noel Tracy -- Alternative scenarios : varieties of capitalism / Constance Lever-Tracy -- Alternative scenarios : technological optimism or low energy futures / Terry Leahy -- Bio-fuels / Stephen Clarke, Dan Graiver and Sudirman Habibie -- The nuclear option / Lee Clarke -- Case study : agro-forestry in the Philippines / Lutgarda L. Tolentino [and others] -- Public opposition to renewable energy / Claire Haggett -- Behavioural insights : motivating individual emissions cuts through communication / David Ockwell, Saffron O'Neill and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- Climate change and energy security in the European Union : from rhetoric to practice? / Karin Bäckstrand -- Case study : wind energy regulation in Germany and the UK / Shiufai Wong -- Tipping point : crossroads for US climate policy / Marcus Carson and Mikael Román -- China's emissions : dangers and responses / Bo Miao and Graeme Lang -- Justice and the politics of climate change / Derek Bell -- International law responses to climate change / Hossein Esmaeili -- Pushing past neo-liberalism : rethinking global climate change negotiations / Raymond Clémençon.

Summary: This work brings together the latest research on climate change from the social sciences. It comprehensively covers social causes, impacts, recognition and responses to climate change and features cutting edge research by scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK and USA, and new material on China, India and South East Asia

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Preface : Copenhagen and after / Raymond Clémençon and Marcus Carson --
Climate change and society : an introduction / Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock --
The science of climate change : knowledge, uncertainty and risk / Barrie Pittock --
Climate change : complexity and collaboration between the science / Ian Welsh --
Organisations and global warming / Charles Perrow --
Capitalism versus nature : eco-socialist approaches to the climate crisis / Dennis Soron --
Ecological economics : the impact of unsustainable growth / Philip Lawn --
Ecological economics : consumption drivers and impacts / Inge Røpke --
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change / Robin Leichenko, Adelle Thomas and Mark Barnes --
Ecological rationality, disaster, and the environmental education of leaders / Raymond Murphy --
Case study : floods in Mumbai / Monalisa Chatterjee --
Public opinion : a cross-national view / Steven R. Brechin --
Media presentations of climate change / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Joe Smith --
Case study : climate change reporting in Time magazine / Ray Loi --
Postscript / Constance Lever-Tracy --
Religion, worldview and climate change / Lee Levett-Olson --
Climate change denial : sources, actors and strategies / Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright --
Crises and opportunities / Noel Tracy --
Alternative scenarios : varieties of capitalism / Constance Lever-Tracy --
Alternative scenarios : technological optimism or low energy futures / Terry Leahy --
Bio-fuels / Stephen Clarke, Dan Graiver and Sudirman Habibie --
The nuclear option / Lee Clarke --
Case study : agro-forestry in the Philippines / Lutgarda L. Tolentino [and others] --
Public opposition to renewable energy / Claire Haggett --
Behavioural insights : motivating individual emissions cuts through communication / David Ockwell, Saffron O'Neill and Lorraine Whitmarsh --
Climate change and energy security in the European Union : from rhetoric to practice? / Karin Bäckstrand --
Case study : wind energy regulation in Germany and the UK / Shiufai Wong --
Tipping point : crossroads for US climate policy / Marcus Carson and Mikael Román --
China's emissions : dangers and responses / Bo Miao and Graeme Lang --
Justice and the politics of climate change / Derek Bell --
International law responses to climate change / Hossein Esmaeili --
Pushing past neo-liberalism : rethinking global climate change negotiations / Raymond Clémençon.

This work brings together the latest research on climate change from the social sciences. It comprehensively covers social causes, impacts, recognition and responses to climate change and features cutting edge research by scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK and USA, and new material on China, India and South East Asia

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