Work in a Warming World
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2016
255 pages
978-1-55339-433-4 (ISBN)
Description
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.
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Carla Lipsig-Mumme | Stephen McBride
Work in a Warming World
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04/2015
Queen's School of Policy Studies
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Content
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices
- I: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
- Introduction
- 1. International Constraints on Green Strategies: Ontario's WTO Defeat and Public Sector Remedies
- 2. Unions and Climate Change in Europe: The Contrasting Experience of Germany and the United Kingdom
- 3. Gendered Emissions: Counting Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Gender and Why It Matters
- 4. Canadian Labour's Climate Dilemma
- 5. Renewable Energy Development as Industrial Strategy: The Case of Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy Act
- II: MAKING GREEN WORK
- 6. (Re)building Sustainable Infrastructure: The Implications for Engineers
- 7. Construction and Climate Change: Overcoming Roadblocks to Achieving Green Workforce Competencies
- 8. Labour and the Greening of Hospitality: Raising Standards or Union Greenwashing?
- 9. Cities, Climate Change, and the Green Economy
- 10. Renewable Energy, Sustainable Jobs: The Case of the Kingston, Ontario, Region
- About the Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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