Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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
Edited
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...
Insuring Against Climate Change: The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools
1st Edition
By Nikolas Scherer
September 30, 2021
This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these new financial instruments, illustrating how they function on a conceptual, technical and practical level, and reconstructs their political genesis.With ...
Political Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethical Institutions and Fact-Sensitive Theory
1st Edition
By Theresa Scavenius
March 31, 2021
This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.Theresa Scavenius presents a concept of moral responsibility that does not address the obligations of individual citizens, but instead assesses the moral responsibility of ...
Regenerative Urban Development, Climate Change and the Common Good
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth Caniglia, Beatrice Frank, Jr. Knott, Kenneth S. Sagendorf, Eugene A. Wilkerson
March 31, 2021
This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.This book brings together key thinkers in this field to develop a meaningful synthesis between the ...
Cities Leading Climate Action: Urban Policy and Planning
1st Edition
By Sabrina Dekker
June 30, 2020
This book provides local governments and interested stakeholders with insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing climate change. Drawing on in-depth case study research on Vancouver, Portland, Glasgow and Dublin, Dekker examines the policy development processes employed ...
Culture, Space and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Resilience in European Coastal Areas
1st Edition
By Thorsten Heimann
June 30, 2020
Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide. Differences can be observed in the perception of potential threats and opportunities as well as in the appraisal of adequate coping strategies. Collective efforts often fail not because of technical restrictions, but as a result of social and cultural...
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building
1st Edition
By Mizan R Khan, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Victoria Hoffmeister
June 30, 2020
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity ...
Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Tokar, Tamra Gilbertson
April 15, 2020
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of ...