Climate change, science, and the politics of shared sacrifice /
Designed for undergraduate courses in "climate change" politics within environmental studies, politics and international relations curricula, for which there presently is no basic textbook. The text will integrate science and policy within each chapter by considering technical issues but a...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- How humans tried to take control of nature : from cuddly "teddy bears" to the anthropogenic tempest of climate change
- Learning to listen to the earth : the evidence and the scope of the problem
- International relations and global climate politics
- The domestic politics of climate change : environmentalists versus energy interests and the fight for public attention
- Short-term versus long-term crude solutions : peak oil, fracking, and the "natural gas" bridge, and the promise of renewables
- Beyond the energy sector : technological transformations on the way to "decarbonization"
- The economics of carbon taxes and emissions trading, and who will foot the bill?
- Fixing Eden : ratcheting up ambition, deep decarbonization, and "Plan B"
- Sowing our gardens is not enough : what can we do as citizens and consumers?