
Climate-Challenged Society
Oxford University Press
Published on 24. October 2013
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-966010-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-966010-0 (9780199660100)
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John S. Dryzek | Richard B. Norgaard | David Schlosberg
Climate-Challenged Society
E-Book
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John S. Dryzek | Richard B. Norgaard | David Schlosberg
Climate-Challenged Society
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Persons
John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He is the author of a number of books on democracy and environmental politics.
Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an eclectic ecological economist.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on environmental political theory, environmental justice, and environmental movements.
Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an eclectic ecological economist.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on environmental political theory, environmental justice, and environmental movements.
Author
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science, Australian National University.
Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney
Content
Preface ; 1. Climate's Challenges ; 2. Constructing Science and Dealing with Denial ; 3. The Costs of Inaction and the Limits of Economics ; 4. Actions that Promise and Practices that Fall Short ; 5. What's Just? ; 6. Governance ; 7. The Anthropocene ; 8. Transition, Resilience, and Reconstruction