Climate-Challenged Society (Hardcover, New)

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent, integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate change. The coverage begins with an examination of science, public opinion, and policy making, with special attention to organized climate change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and its limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice; governance at all levels from the local to the global; and the challenge of an emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly unintended consequences of human action drive the earth system into a more chaotic and unstable era. The conclusion considers the prospects for fundamental transition in ideas, movements, economics, and governance.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	John S. Dryzek • Richard B. Norgaard • David Schlosberg
Dimensions:	220 x 147 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-966010-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business negotiation Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-966010-7
Barcode:	9780199660100

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