Climate change and poverty : a new agenda for developed nations / Tony Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social aspects--Developed countries.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Developed countries.

Climatic changes--Developed countries.

Global temperature changes--Social aspects--Developed countries.

Global temperature changes.

Global temperature changes--Economic aspects--Developed countries.

Poverty--Environmental aspects--Developed countries.

Poverty.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Developed countries.

Economic development.

Environmental policy--Developed countries.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2014

Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<i>Climate Change and Poverty</i> offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty, and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution. This book is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Contents:

CLIMATE CHANGE AND POVERTY; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Climate change and poverty: an ecosocial agenda; Social and natural interdependencies; Mapping injustice; Defining poverty; Three points; A further note about terminology; Synopsis; RETHINKING POVERTY:CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES; 1. Capabilities; Philosophy; Social policy; Environmentalism; Conclusion; 2. Resources; Assets; Ecological modernisation3; Beyond ecological modernisation?; Towards an ecosocial understanding of poverty; Poverty as an ecosocial category

8. Land: housing and urban densitiesHousing and poverty; Housing and the natural environment; Rent-seeking; Positional racing; Land value taxation; Conclusion; 9. Land: transport, flooding, waste; Transport, poverty and social exclusion; Transport and climate change; Flooding; Flood risk and insurance; Waste; Positional racing revisited; Conclusion; 10. Air and water; Introduction; Pollutants and health; Climate change; Knotted complexities; Air pollution and poverty; Solutions?; Water poverty; The atmospheric commons; Conclusion; Conclusion; References; Index

Conclusion3. Spaces; Social policy; Environmental sociology; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Conclusion; 4. Times; Social policy; Sociology; Environmentalism; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Ecotemporal deprivation; Conclusion; 5. Summary; ECOSOCIAL POLICIES; 6. Energy and fuel poverty; Basic facts; Political solutions and prospects; From trade-offs to synergies?; An ecosocial consensus?; Conclusion; 7. Food and food poverty; Recent developments and prospects; Food policy and poverty; Natural environments and food11; Ecological public health; Two critical reflections; Conclusion

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Mar 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 05 2025)

ISBN:

9781447354758

1447354753

9781447300861

1447300866

9781447311744

1447311744

9781447300885

1447300882

OCLC:

1229529402