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Political theory and global climate change / edited by Steve Vanderheiden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Political aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental justice.
- Environmental ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Foreword; Introduction; I Justice, Ethics, and Global Climate Change; 1 Allocating the Global Commons: Theory and Practice; 2 A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Corruption; 3 Climate Change, Environmental Rights, and Emission Shares; 4 Environmental (In)justice in Climate Change; II Climate Change, Nature, and Society; 5 Climate Change and Arctic Cases: A Normative Exploration of Social-Ecological System Analysis
- 6 Climatologies as Social Critique: The Social Construction/Creation of Global Warming, Global Dimming, and Global Cooling7 Urban Sprawl, Climate Change, Oil Depletion, and Eco-Marxism; 8 In the Wake of Katrina: Climate Change and the Coming Crisis of Displacement; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-223) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262285445
- 0262285444
- 9781435677296
- 1435677293
- OCLC:
- 273057462
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