Routledge handbook of climate change and society /
Routledge handbook of climate change and society /
Handbook of climate change and society
edited by Constance Lever-Tracy.
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- xxx, 482 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm.
- Routledge international handbooks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Copenhagen and after / Climate change and society : an introduction / The science of climate change : knowledge, uncertainty and risk / Climate change : complexity and collaboration between the science / Organisations and global warming / Capitalism versus nature : eco-socialist approaches to the climate crisis / Ecological economics : the impact of unsustainable growth / Ecological economics : consumption drivers and impacts / Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change / Ecological rationality, disaster, and the environmental education of leaders / Case study : floods in Mumbai / Public opinion : a cross-national view / Media presentations of climate change / Case study : climate change reporting in Time magazine / Religion, worldview and climate change / Climate change denial : sources, actors and strategies / Crises and opportunities / Alternative scenarios : varieties of capitalism / Alternative scenarios : technological optimism or low energy futures / Bio-fuels / The nuclear option / Case study : agro-forestry in the Philippines / Public opposition to renewable energy / Behavioural insights : motivating individual emissions cuts through communication / Climate change and energy security in the European Union : from rhetoric to practice? / Case study : wind energy regulation in Germany and the UK / Tipping point : crossroads for US climate policy / China's emissions : dangers and responses / Justice and the politics of climate change / International law responses to climate change / Pushing past neo-liberalism : rethinking global climate change negotiations / Raymond Clémençon and Marcus Carson -- Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock -- Barrie Pittock -- Ian Welsh -- Charles Perrow -- Dennis Soron -- Philip Lawn -- Inge Røpke -- Robin Leichenko, Adelle Thomas and Mark Barnes -- Raymond Murphy -- Monalisa Chatterjee -- Steven R. Brechin -- Maxwell T. Boykoff and Joe Smith -- Ray Loi -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Lee Levett-Olson -- Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright -- Noel Tracy -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Terry Leahy -- Stephen Clarke, Dan Graiver and Sudirman Habibie -- Lee Clarke -- Lutgarda L. Tolentino ... [et al.] -- Claire Haggett -- David Ockwell, Saffron O'Neill and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- Karin Bäckstrand -- Shiufai Wong -- Marcus Carson and Mikael Román -- Bo Miao and Graeme Lang -- Derek Bell -- Hossein Esmaeili -- Raymond Clémençon. Preface : Postscript /
9780415544764 (hardback) 0415544769 (hardback) 9780415544788 (pbk.) 0415544785 (pbk) 9780203876213 (ebook) 0203876210 (ebook)
2009043134
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Human beings--Effect of climate on.
QC903 / .R68 2010
304.25 ROU / 005245
QC903 / .R68 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Copenhagen and after / Climate change and society : an introduction / The science of climate change : knowledge, uncertainty and risk / Climate change : complexity and collaboration between the science / Organisations and global warming / Capitalism versus nature : eco-socialist approaches to the climate crisis / Ecological economics : the impact of unsustainable growth / Ecological economics : consumption drivers and impacts / Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change / Ecological rationality, disaster, and the environmental education of leaders / Case study : floods in Mumbai / Public opinion : a cross-national view / Media presentations of climate change / Case study : climate change reporting in Time magazine / Religion, worldview and climate change / Climate change denial : sources, actors and strategies / Crises and opportunities / Alternative scenarios : varieties of capitalism / Alternative scenarios : technological optimism or low energy futures / Bio-fuels / The nuclear option / Case study : agro-forestry in the Philippines / Public opposition to renewable energy / Behavioural insights : motivating individual emissions cuts through communication / Climate change and energy security in the European Union : from rhetoric to practice? / Case study : wind energy regulation in Germany and the UK / Tipping point : crossroads for US climate policy / China's emissions : dangers and responses / Justice and the politics of climate change / International law responses to climate change / Pushing past neo-liberalism : rethinking global climate change negotiations / Raymond Clémençon and Marcus Carson -- Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock -- Barrie Pittock -- Ian Welsh -- Charles Perrow -- Dennis Soron -- Philip Lawn -- Inge Røpke -- Robin Leichenko, Adelle Thomas and Mark Barnes -- Raymond Murphy -- Monalisa Chatterjee -- Steven R. Brechin -- Maxwell T. Boykoff and Joe Smith -- Ray Loi -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Lee Levett-Olson -- Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright -- Noel Tracy -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Terry Leahy -- Stephen Clarke, Dan Graiver and Sudirman Habibie -- Lee Clarke -- Lutgarda L. Tolentino ... [et al.] -- Claire Haggett -- David Ockwell, Saffron O'Neill and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- Karin Bäckstrand -- Shiufai Wong -- Marcus Carson and Mikael Román -- Bo Miao and Graeme Lang -- Derek Bell -- Hossein Esmaeili -- Raymond Clémençon. Preface : Postscript /
9780415544764 (hardback) 0415544769 (hardback) 9780415544788 (pbk.) 0415544785 (pbk) 9780203876213 (ebook) 0203876210 (ebook)
2009043134
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Human beings--Effect of climate on.
QC903 / .R68 2010
304.25 ROU / 005245
QC903 / .R68 2010