Power in a warming world : the new global politics of climate change and the remaking of environmental inequality / David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan, Earth System Governance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciplet, David, author.

Khan, Mizanur Rahman, author.

Roberts, J. Timmons, author.

Contributor:

Earth System Governance.

Series:

Earth system governance.

Earth System Governance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Global warming--Political aspects.

Global warming.

Environmental justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : MIT Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change? In this book, the authors bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers, and activists to bear on this urgent question.

Contents:

Trading a livable world

Power shift

Beyond the north-south divide?

Manufacturing consent

The politics of adaptation

The staying power of big fossil

Society too civil?

Contesting climate injustice

Power in a future world

Linking movements for justice.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262330046

0262330040

9780262330039

0262330032

OCLC:

921122555