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Oxford handbook of climate change and society

John S. Dryzek (Editor), Richard B. Norgaard (Editor), David Schlosberg (Editor)
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.
Print Book, English, 2014
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
xiv, 727 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780199683420, 9780199566600, 0199683425, 0199566607
1029434011
Climate change and society : approaches and responses / John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg
A truly complex and diabolical policy problem / Will Steffen
The nature of the problem / Dale Jamieson
The poverty of climate economics / Mark Sagoff
The development of the concept of dangerous anthropogenic climate change / Spencer Weart
Voices of vulnerability : the reconfiguration of policy discourses / Maarten Hajer and Wytske Versteeg
Environmentality / Timothy W. Luke
The physical sciences and climate politics / Hans von Storch, Armin Bunde, and Nico Stehr
Cosmopolitan knowledge : climate science and global civic epistemology / Sheila Jasanoff
Organized climate change denial / Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright
Communicating climate change : closing the science-action gap / Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling
Economic estimates of the damages caused by climate change / Robert Mendelsohn
Weighing climate futures : a critical review of the application of economic valuation / Richard B. Norgaard
Global change vulnerability assessments : definitions, challenges, and opportunities / Colin Polsky and Hallie Eakin
Health hazards / Elizabeth G. Hanna
Indigenous peoples and cultural losses / Robert Melchior Figueroa. Climate change and 'security' / Nils Gilman, Doug Randall, and Peter Schwartz
Human security / Jon Barnett
Climate refugees and security : conceptualizations, categories, and contestations / Timothy Doyle and Sanjay Chaturvedi
From efficiency to justice : utility as the informational basis of climate strategies, and some alternatives / Simon Dietz
Climate justice / Stephen M. Gardiner
International justice / Paul Baer
Intergenerational justice / Richard B. Howarth
Public opinion and participation / Matthew C. Nisbet
Social movements and global civil society / Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Corina McKendry
Translocal climate justice solidarities / Paul Routledge
Climate denial : emotion, psychology, culture, and political economy / Kari Marie Norgaard
The role of religions in activism / Laurel Kearns
Comparing state responses / Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley
Climate change politics in an authoritarian state : the ambivalent case of China / Miranda A. Schreurs
Cities and subnational governments / Harriet Bulkeley
Issues of scale in climate governance / Daniel A. Farber
Decarbonizing the welfare state / Ian Gough and James Meadowcroft
Discourses of the global south / Sivan Kartha. Economic policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions / David Harrison [and others]
Policy instruments in practice / Andrew Jordan [and others]
Carbon trading : a critique / Clive L. Spash
Redesigning energy systems / Mark Diesendorf
Corporate responses / Simone Pulver
Is green consumption part of the solution? / Andrew Szasz
Selling carbon : from international climate regime to global carbon market / Matthew Paterson
Improving the performance of the climate regime : insights from regime analysis / Oran R. Young
Reconceptualizing global governance / Paul G. Harris
The role of international law in global governance / Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett
The democratic legitimacy of global governance after Copenhagen / Karin Bäckstrand
New actors and mechanisms of global governance / Frank Biermann
Resilience / W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, and James Waters
Originally published: 2011, reprinted 2014