Postmodern Climate Change (Environmental Politics)

Postmodern Climate Change (Environmental Politics)

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Leigh Glover

The series understands politics in a broad sense and books will focus on mainstream issues such as the policy process and new social movements as well as emerging areas such as cultural politics and political economy. The series will be of interest not only to academics and students working in the environmental field, but will also demand to be read within the broader discipline.

Environmental Politics addresses the needs of students and teachers, and the titles are published in paperback and hardback.

Routledge Research in Environmental Politics presents innovative new research intended for high-level specialist readership. These titles are published in hardback only.

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Postmodern Climate Change

Description A much-needed analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. The series consists of two strands: The Bookshelf application offers access: Atmospheric Justice is the first single-authored work of political theory that addresses this pressing challenge via the conceptual frameworks of justice, equality, and responsibility.

Steve Vanderheiden points toward ways to achieve environmental justice by exploring how climate change raises issues of both international and intergenerational justice. Economics and management of climate change: The book contributes to the question of how climate change can be mitigated by discussing efficient and effective design of mitigation measures, in particular emissions trading and clean development mechanism CDM.

Placing special emphasis on the impact of climate change risks on business, the book investigates in which way selected sectors of the economy are affected and what measures they can undertake to adapt to climate change risks. B85 4th Floor.

The author "applies systems theory to the environmental and resource crisis humankind is bringing upon itself. He traces these crises and the impediments to solutions to the sociopolitical institutions that have developed into today's world of global corporatism, an 'unholy union' of church, corporation, and state.

They document a generally well managed crisis, but also reveal the slippery slope from transparency to withholding critical information as the crisis deepened, and examine conflict resolution between leaders during a disaster. Low carbon, high growth: Latin American responses to climate change: In this context, it is critical that Latin American countries develop their own strategies for adapting to the various impacts of climate change, and for contributing to global efforts aimed at mitigation.

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