Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: An Historical Ecology
1st Edition
By Gufu Oba
November 10, 2016
In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. Drawing from rock art, archaeology, ...
Action Research for Climate Change Adaptation: Developing and applying knowledge for governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Arwin van Buuren, Jasper Eshuis, Mathijs van Vliet
November 07, 2016
Governments all over the world are struggling with the question of how to adapt to climate change. They need information not only about the issue and its possible consequences, but also about feasible governance strategies and instruments to combat it. At the same time, scientists from different ...
Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa
1st Edition
By Babette Never
November 07, 2016
The success of international efforts to manage climate change depends on the participation of emerging economies. This book uses a comparative study of two of the most important, India and South Africa, to reveal new insights into managing climate change on a global scale. The book provides a ...
Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy Steele, Tooran Alizadeh, Leila Eslami-Andargoli, Silvia Serrao-Neumann
July 28, 2016
The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice. This offers potential for transformative change through the processes of re-bordering and ...
International Climate Change Law and State Compliance
1st Edition
By Alexander Zahar
July 27, 2016
A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states. Law has a clear role to play in that solution. What is not so clear is the role that law has played to date as a constraining factor on state conduct. International...
Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Bumpus, James Tansey, Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez, Chukwumerije Okereke
June 17, 2016
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean technology, fundamental business transformation has not ...
How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Globus Veldman, Andrew Szasz, Randolph Haluza-DeLay
February 29, 2016
A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies, ...
Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance
1st Edition
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By Todd Cherry, Jon Hovi, David M. McEvoy
February 29, 2016
Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is at least partly the result of humans’ reliance on fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is a formidable challenge. Underlying this challenge...
China Confronts Climate Change: A bottom-up perspective
1st Edition
By Peter Koehn
December 11, 2015
China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China’s climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into ...
Climate Action Upsurge: The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics
1st Edition
By Stuart Rosewarne, James Goodman, Rebecca Pearse
July 16, 2015
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy ...
Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime: A Proposed Framework
1st Edition
By Mizan R. Khan
July 16, 2015
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation strategies such as those agreed at the Durban Platform of December 2011. This climate regime aims to define ...
Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Suh-Yong Chung
June 08, 2015
The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the ...