Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide services, infrastructure and socio-economic opportunities. How do we achieve the global goals on climate change and also make room for allowing global urban development? Increasing levels of awareness and engagement on climate change at the local level, coupled with recent global agreements on climate and development goals, as well as the New Urban Agenda emerging from Habitat III, present an...
Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in develo...
In recent years, interest in climate change within sociology and media studies has rapidly increased and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field. This book contributes to filling this gap by examining how climate change has developed, critically assessing past and current interventions from a sociological perspective.
The book is the first to link climate change, the conceptualization of civilizing and de-civilizing historical trends in the work of Norbert Elias and the study of moral panics. These specialised yet growing academic fields of sociological...
In recent years, interest in climate change within sociology and media studies has rapidly increased and yet there is still relatively little publi...
Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential constitutes a poorly understood topic.
Climate Change Finance and International Law fills this gap in the legal scholarship. The book analyses the legal obligations of developed countries to financially support qualifying...
Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer o...
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 intent, the response industry, or 'Climate Inc.', is failing.
Reimagining Climate Change questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing...
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitiga...
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 account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational non-state connections, and the urban populace in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A multitude of recent local initiatives that have engaged subnational China in actions that...
China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own popul...
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 account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational non-state connections, and the urban populace in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A multitude of recent local initiatives that have engaged subnational China in actions that...
China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own popul...
Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives of global civil society, it also constituted a privileged vantage point for the study of global environmental governance "in the making."
This volume offers readers an original account of the current state of play in the field of global climate governance. Building upon...
Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference ...
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2 C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed in the scale and speed required for effective climate action using an analogy provided by the mobilisation for a war that encompassed nations, the Second World War. "
Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation" examines the wartime-climate analogy by drawing lessons from wartime mobilisations to develop contingency plans for a scenario where governments implement stringent mitigation programs as an insurance policy...
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2 C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such ra...
The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the New Urban Agenda. Asia is home to many of the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change impacts and, along with Africa, will be the site of most urban population growth over the coming decades.
Bringing together a range of city experiences, Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities provides valuable insights into how cities can overcome some of the barriers to...
The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, th...
Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate nourishment as well as the entire food system food production, marketing, processing, distribution and prices.
Climate Change and Food Security focuses on the challenge to food security posed by a changing climate. The book brings together many of the critical global concerns of...
Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather ...
