TY - BOOK AU - Lever-Tracy,Constance TI - Routledge handbook of climate change and society SN - 9780415544764 (hardback) AV - QC903 .R68 2010 U1 - 304.25 ROU 23 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Climatic changes KW - Global warming KW - Social aspects KW - Human beings KW - Effect of climate on N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ... [et al.] --; 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 ER -