Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-33299-7
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.

For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become effective learning devices for students. This book is organised around 15 important questions, and is split into four parts:

- What do we need to know?

- What should we do?

- On what grounds should we base our actions?

- Who should be the agents of change?

Each debate is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format the book is designed to introduce students of climate change to different arguments prompted by these questions, and also provides a unique opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate amongst themselves. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and with discussion questions for use in student classes.

Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences and humanities to debate these ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic, technological and political roadblocks, Contemporary Debates on Climate Change is essential reading for all students of climate change, as well as those studying environmental policy and politics and sustainable development more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulme, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why and how to debate climate change; 1. Is climate change the most important challenge of our times?; PART I: What do we need to know?; 2. Is the concept of ‘tipping point’ helpful for describing and communicating possible climate futures?; 3. Should individual extreme weather events be attributed to human agency?; 4. Does climate change drive violence, conflict and human migration?; 5. Can the social cost of carbon be calculated?; PART II: What should we do?; 6. Are carbon markets the best way to address climate change?; 7. Should future investments in energy technology be limited exclusively to renewables?; 8. Is it necessary to research solar climate engineering as a possible backstop technology?; PART III: On what grounds should we base our actions?; 9. Is emphasising consensus in climate science helpful for policymaking?; 10. Do rich people rather than rich countries bear the greatest responsibility for climate change?; 11. Is climate change a human rights violation?; PART IV: Who should be the agents of change?; 12. Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors?; 13. Is legal adjudication essential for enforcing ambitious climate change policies?; 14. Does the ‘Chinese model’ of environmental governance demonstrate to the world how to govern the climate?; 15. Are social media making constructive climate policymaking harder?

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK, founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Reseach and Editor-in-Chief of the review journal WIREs Climate Change. He is the author of eight books on climate change, including Why We Disagree About Climate Change and Can Science Fix Climate Change?