The Oxford handbook of climate change and society

A systematic examination by the best writers in a variety of fields working on issues of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond. INDICE: Contents; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg: Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses; PART II: THE CHALLENGE AND ITS HISTORY; 2: Will Steffen: A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem; 3: Dale Jamieson: The Nature of the Problem; 4: Mark Sagoff: The Poverty of Climate Economics; 5: Spencer Weart: The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change; 6: Maarten A. Hajer and Wytske Versteeg: Voices of Vulnerability: The Reconfiguration of PolicyDiscourses; 7: Timothy W. Luke: Environmentality; PART III: SCIENCE, SOCIETY,AND PUBLIC OPINION; 8: Hans von Storch, Armin Bunde, and Nico Stehr: The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics; 9: Sheila Jasanoff: Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology; 10: Riley E. Dunlap and AaronM. McCright: Organized Climate Change Denial; 11: Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling: Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science-Action Gap; PART IV:SOCIAL IMPACTS; 12: Robert Mendelsohn: Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change; 13: Richard B. Norgaard: Weighing Climate Futures: A Critical Review of the Application of Economic Valuation; 14: Colin Polsky and Hallie Eakin: Global Change Vulnerability Assessments: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities; 15: Elizabeth G. Hanna: Health Hazards; 16: Robert MelchiorFigueroa: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses; PART V: SECURITY; 17: Nils Gilman, Doug Randall, and Peter Schwartz: Climate Change and <'Security>'; 18:Jon Barnett: Human Security; 19: Timothy Doyle and Sanjay Chaturvedi: ClimateRefugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories, and Contestations; PART VI: JUSTICE; 20: Simon Dietz: From Efficiency to Justice: Utility as the Informational Basis for Climate Strategies, and Some Alternatives; 21: Stephen M.Gardiner: Climate Justice; 22: Paul Baer: International Justice; 23: Richard Howarth: Intergenerational Justice; PART VII: PUBLICS AND MOVEMENTS; 24: Matthew C. Nisbet: Public Opinion and Participation; 25: Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Corina McKendry: Social Movements and Global Civil Society; 26: Paul Routledge: Transnational Climate Justice Solidarities; 27: Kari Marie Norgaard: Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture, and Political Economy; 28: Laurel Kearns:The Role of Religions in Activism; PART VIII: GOVERNMENT RESPONSES; 29: PeterChristoff and Robyn Eckersley: Comparing State Responses; 30: Miranda A. Schreurs: Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China; 31: Harriet Bulkeley: Cities and Subnational Governments; 32: Daniel A. Farber: Issues of Scale in Climate Governance; 33: Ian Gough and James Meadowcroft: Decarbonizing the Welfare State; 34: Sivan Kartha: Discourses of The Global South; PART IX: POLICY INSTRUMENTS; 35: David Harrison, Andrew Foss, Per Klevnas, and Daniel Radov: Economic Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 36: Andrew Jordan,

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956660-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 864
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés