Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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 ...
Urban Planning for Climate Change
1st Edition
By Barbara Norman
October 19, 2022
This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures. Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental to action on climate change. In doing so it...
Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account
1st Edition
By Aase J. Kvanneid
September 26, 2022
Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas. From data collected over the course of a year in a small ...
The Ethos of the Climate Event: Ethical Transformations and Political Subjectivities
1st Edition
By Kellan Anfinson
August 01, 2022
This book develops a politico-ethical response to climate change that accounts for the novelty and uncertainty that it entails. This volume explores the ethical dimensions of climate change and posits that one must view it as a social construction intimately tied to political issues in order to ...
Climate Change Law in China in Global Context
1st Edition
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By Xiangbai He, Hao Zhang, Alexander Zahar
April 29, 2022
In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country’s legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. There has been little English scholarship ...
The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change: Institutional Dynamics Beyond a Linear Model
1st Edition
By E. C. H. Keskitalo
December 27, 2021
The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change critically examines the prominence of natural science framing in mainstream climate change research and demonstrates why climate change really is a social issue. The book highlights how assumptions regarding social and cultural systems that are...