Climate-challenged society

Climate-challenged society

by Dryzek, John S.

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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent, integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies be…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Climate-challenged society / by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard and David Schlosberg.

Summary

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent, integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate change. The coverage begins with an examination of science, public opinion, and policy making, with special attention to organized climate change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and its limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice; governance at all levels from the local to the global; and the challenge of an emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly unintended consequences of human action drive the earth system into a more chaotic and unstable era. The conclusion considers the prospects for fundamental transition in ideas, movements, economics, and governance.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xiii, 169 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199660100, 0199660107, 9780199660117, 0199660115
  • oclc:ocn863691518
  • LC Classification:QC902.9
  • Dewey Decimal:363.738/74

Table of Contents

Climate's challenges -- Constructing science and dealing with denial -- The costs of inaction and the limits of economics -- Actions that promise and practices that fall short -- What's just? -- Governance -- The Anthropocene -- Transition, resilience, and reconstruction.

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Subjects

Canvis climàtics -- Aspectes socials Climat -- Changements climate change Climatic changes Climatic changes -- Social aspects Environment and ecology Klimaänderung Klimaschutz Klimawandel Umweltbewusstsein

Writers

Dryzek, John S. Norgaard, Richard B. Schlosberg, David

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