Confronting Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Constance Lever-Tracy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Series: Shortcuts
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change? How will the world respond to the challenges of climate change in the twenty-first century? How should people think about confronting the politics of climate change?

In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, Constance Lever-Tracy provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in confronting climate change, Lever-Tracy provides a sober, critical assessment of the politics of global warming and climate change.

By combining sociology, environmental studies and politics, Confronting Climate Change will serve as an introduction that will appeal to students and general readers alike.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 11
ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY......Page 13
PART I: What do we know?......Page 14
1 INTRODUCTION TO PART I......Page 16
2 KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS......Page 25
3 MANIFEST VULNERABILITIES......Page 29
4 FUTURE RISKS......Page 38
5 CONFRONTING THE RISKS......Page 44
PART II: What can we do?......Page 52
6 INTRODUCTION TO PART II......Page 54
7 CHANGING OUR PRACTICES......Page 62
8 CHANGING OUR POWER I: Natural gas, biofuels and nuclear energy......Page 72
9 CHANGING OUR POWER II: Water, wind, sun and earth......Page 81
10 ADAPTING TO A CHANGING CLIMATE......Page 89
PART III: Who can do it?......Page 100
11 FROM THE BOTTOM UP OR THE TOP DOWN?......Page 102
12 GLOBAL CONFLICT OR CO-OPERATION?......Page 109
13 CONCLUSION......Page 114
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING......Page 116
INDEX......Page 118