In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges.
Drawing from rock art, archaeology, paleoecological data, trade, ancient hydrological technology, vegetation, social memory and historical documentation, this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa. It evaluates the present and future challenges to climate change...
In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' respon...
Climate change poses a range of threats to our infrastructure systems and these threats are complicated by the uncertainty and complexity involved, which comprises more than the science or dynamic nature of the climate itself. Many of the challenges decision-makers and other stakeholders must grapple with are governance related. Planning and decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved, including: relationships between different actors; funding arrangements; and the sources and procedures for vetting data. These...
Climate change poses a range of threats to our infrastructure systems and these threats are complicated by the uncertainty and complexity involved,...
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better understand processes of change and uptake across a range of climate change actions.
Local Action on Climate Change examines how local climate change responses are emerging, being operationalized and evaluated within a range of geographical and socio-political contexts across the globe....
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. Howev...
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it is strong...
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single, global danger...
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...
