Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, people and places
1st Edition
By Linda Connor
December 21, 2017
Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence – fundamental when thinking about climate change. This book offers a new way of exploring the significance of locality and lives in the epoch of the Anthropocene, a time when...
Community Action and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Jennifer Kent
December 21, 2017
The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. ...
Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of race, class and gender
1st Edition
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By Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres
December 21, 2017
Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate. Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change...
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 ...
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
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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
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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...