Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation
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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
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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
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By Todd L. 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
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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 ...
Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
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By Patricia E. Perkins
June 08, 2015
In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be ...
Local Climate Change and Society
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By M. A. Mohamed Salih
December 11, 2014
Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...