Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance: The Arctic and Non-Arctic World
1st Edition
By Gisele Arruda, Lara Johannsdottir
April 14, 2025
This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region. Bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance assesses the costs of ...
The Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
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By Steffen Dalsgaard, Andy Lautrup, Katinka A. Schyberg, Ingmar Lippert
April 02, 2025
This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon – both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects – has come to play in social and cultural life. As a proxy for greenhouse gas emission data, carbon has grown to become a phenomenon that can no longer be accounted ...
Climate Action in Southern Africa: Implications for Climate Justice and Just Transition
1st Edition
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By Philani Moyo
January 30, 2025
Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa in furthering climate-resilient development. Climate Action in Southern Africa examines the intrinsic connection between local climate actions, climate-resilient ...
Climate Politics in Populist Times: Climate Change Communication Strategies in Germany, Spain, and Austria
1st Edition
By Mirjam Gruber
October 08, 2024
This book navigates the neglected territory where far-right populism intersects with climate change, presenting a nuanced examination that transcends traditional research boundaries. In recent decades, Europe has grappled with the surge of far-right and populist movements, fueling robust academic ...
Resolving the Climate Crisis: US Social Scientists Speak Out
1st Edition
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By Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra
June 28, 2024
This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. Despite efforts for mitigation, global emission levels continue to ...
Climate Cultures in Europe and North America: New Formations of Environmental Knowledge and Action
1st Edition
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By Thorsten Heimann, Jamie Sommer, Margarethe Kusenbach, Gabriela Christmann
January 29, 2024
Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed. Whereas existing studies of climate cultural differences are predominantly rooted in a ...
Climate Denial in American Politics: #ClimateBrawl
1st Edition
By Gerald Kutney
December 04, 2023
Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change. Organized around the administrations of American presidents from Roosevelt to Biden, this book ...
Climate Security: The Role of Knowledge and Scientific Information in the Making of a Nexus
1st Edition
By Matti Goldberg
December 01, 2023
This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus. Climate change might give the Soviet Union a competitive advantage in the Cold War. Extreme droughts contributed to wars in Darfur, Syria or Yemen. Melting sea ice creates geopolitical risks....
Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Jarkko Saarinen, Jennifer Fitchett, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn
September 25, 2023
This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of...
Governing Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Jens Marquardt, Laurence L. Delina, Mattijs Smits
September 25, 2023
This volume showcases the diversity of the politics and practices of climate change governance across Southeast Asia. Through a series of country-level case studies and regional perspectives, the authors in this volume explore the complexities and contested nature of climate governance in what can...
Kick-Starting Government Action against Climate Change: Effective Political Strategies
1st Edition
By Ian Budge
May 31, 2023
With drastic action needing to be taken now, rather than over the 30 years to 2050, this book addresses the crucial question of how to get action from governments who will always put short-term considerations (e.g. post Covid economic growth) over longer term climate priorities – unless ...
Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance
1st Edition
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By Nithya Natarajan, Laurie Parsons
January 09, 2023
This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. It draws together accounts of workers, their work, and the politics of resistance in order to enable us to better understand how the impacts of climate change are structured by the economic and social ...