Routledge handbook of climate change and society /
edited by Constance Lever-Tracy.
- 1 online resource (xxx, 482 pages) : illustrations, 1 map.
Copenhagen and after / Climate change and society : an introduction / The science of climate change : knowledge, uncertainty and risk / Climate change : complexity and collaboration between the science / Organisations and global warming / Capitalism versus nature : eco-socialist approaches to the climate crisis / Ecological economics : the impact of unsustainable growth / Ecological economics : consumption drivers and impacts / Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change / Ecological rationality, disaster, and the environmental education of leaders / Case study : floods in Mumbai / Public opinion : a cross-national view / Media presentations of climate change / Case study : climate change reporting in Time magazine / Religion, worldview and climate change / Climate change denial : sources, actors and strategies / Crises and opportunities / Alternative scenarios : varieties of capitalism / Alternative scenarios : technological optimism or low energy futures / Bio-fuels / The nuclear option / Case study : agro-forestry in the Philippines / Public opposition to renewable energy / Behavioural insights : motivating individual emissions cuts through communication / Climate change and energy security in the European Union : from rhetoric to practice? / Case study : wind energy regulation in Germany and the UK / Tipping point : crossroads for US climate policy / China's emissions : dangers and responses / Justice and the politics of climate change / International law responses to climate change / Pushing past neo-liberalism : rethinking global climate change negotiations / Raymond Clémençon and Marcus Carson -- Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock -- Barrie Pittock -- Ian Welsh -- Charles Perrow -- Dennis Soron -- Philip Lawn -- Inge Røpke -- Robin Leichenko, Adelle Thomas and Mark Barnes -- Raymond Murphy -- Monalisa Chatterjee -- Steven R. Brechin -- Maxwell T. Boykoff and Joe Smith -- Ray Loi -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Lee Levett-Olson -- Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright -- Noel Tracy -- Constance Lever-Tracy -- Terry Leahy -- Stephen Clarke, Dan Graiver and Sudirman Habibie -- Lee Clarke -- Lutgarda L. Tolentino [and others] -- Claire Haggett -- David Ockwell, Saffron O'Neill and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- Karin Bäckstrand -- Shiufai Wong -- Marcus Carson and Mikael Román -- Bo Miao and Graeme Lang -- Derek Bell -- Hossein Esmaeili -- Raymond Clémençon. Preface : Postscript /
This work brings together the latest research on climate change from the social sciences. It comprehensively covers social causes, impacts, recognition and responses to climate change and features cutting edge research by scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK and USA, and new material on China, India and South East Asia.