Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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 ...
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 ...
Teaching Climate Change in the United States
1st Edition
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By Joseph Henderson, Andrea Drewes
April 07, 2020
This book highlights best practices in climate change education through the analysis of a rich collection of case studies that showcase educational programs across the United States. Framed against the political backdrop of a country in which climate change denial presents a significant threat to ...
Climate Change, Moral Panics and Civilization
1st Edition
By Amanda Rohloff, André Saramago
March 04, 2020
In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem. This book contributes to filling this gap by ...
Contemplating Climate Change: Mental Models and Human Reasoning
1st Edition
By Stephen M. Dark
March 04, 2020
Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure? Why are some people more disposed to reflect on confounding issues like climate change, recognise the danger, seek a solution, and act accordingly, more than others? This book is concerned with ...
Local Activism for Global Climate Justice: The Great Lakes Watershed
1st Edition
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By Patricia E. Perkins
September 18, 2019
This book will inspire and spark grassroots action to address the inequitable impacts of climate change, by showing how this can be tackled and the many benefits of doing so. With contributions from climate activists and engaged young authors, this volume explores the many ways in which people are...
Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
1st Edition
By Merrill Singer
August 22, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is ...
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated Critical Perspective
2nd Edition
By Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer
March 29, 2018
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the ...
Reimagining Climate Change
1st Edition
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By Paul Wapner, Hilal Elver
June 16, 2017
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory...
Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management
1st Edition
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By Ari Paloviita, Marja Järvelä
May 25, 2017
The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities. The direct climate change risks faced by the agricultural sector are therefore also risks to businesses and food supply chains. Hence the importance of resilience at farm level, community level and...
Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation
1st Edition
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By Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset
May 24, 2017
One of the most heartening developments in climate change mitigation in recent years has been the increasing attention paid to the principle of ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. The failure of the international community to reach significant global agreements on the reduction of greenhouse ...
The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making
1st Edition
By Christopher Shaw
May 03, 2017
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial ...