Surviving Climate Change

Preface


Introduction: Survival Means Renewal, Mark Levene and David Cromwell - Both University of Southampton


Part I The Big Picture


1. The Case for Contraction and Convergence, Aubrey Meyer


Part II The State and its Apparatus


2. Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report, Dave Webb - Leeds Metropolitan University


3. Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector, Steve Wright - Leeds Metropolitan University


4. Britain, Political Process and the Consequences for Government Action on Climate Change, James Humphreys


Part III Critical Players


5. First they Blocked, Now do they Bluff? Corporations respond to Climate Change, Melanie Jarman


6. Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change, David Ballard - University of Bath


7. The Mass Media, Climate Change and how things might be, John Theobald and Marianne McKiggan


8. Having the Information but what do you then do with it? The Scientific and Academic Communities, Jonathan Ward - University of Bristol


9. Asleep on their Watch: Where were the NGOs?, George Marshall


Part IV The Challenge Ahead


10.Clearing the Pathways to Transformation, Susan Ballard and David Ballard


11. Averting Climate Change: By Force, Persuasion or Enlightened Self-Interest ? Jim Scott


Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? Mayer Hillman - Policy Studies Institute, London


Appendix 1: A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate Change, Tim Helweg-Larsen (Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynelleth, Wales) and Jo Abbess


Appendix 2: Climate Change campaigns and other relevant links


Notes on Contributors


Index