Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
EU Climate Diplomacy: Politics, Law and Negotiations
1st Edition
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By Stephen Minas, Vassilis Ntousas
October 02, 2019
The European Union has long played a leadership role in the global response to climate change, including the development and dissemination of climate-friendly technologies such as renewable energy. EU diplomacy has been a vital contributor to the development of international cooperation on climate ...
The Global Climate Regime and Transitional Justice
1st Edition
By Sonja Klinsky, Jasmina Brankovic
October 02, 2019
Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy. Mechanisms and insights from transitional justice have been used in over thirty countries across a range of conflicts at the interface of ...
Local Activism for Global Climate Justice: The Great Lakes Watershed
1st Edition
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By Patricia E. Perkins
September 18, 2019
This book will inspire and spark grassroots action to address the inequitable impacts of climate change, by showing how this can be tackled and the many benefits of doing so. With contributions from climate activists and engaged young authors, this volume explores the many ways in which people are...
Pricing Carbon in Australia: Contestation, the State and Market Failure
1st Edition
By Rebecca Pearse
July 29, 2019
In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A decade on, the experiment in carbon trading is failing. Carbon market schemes have been plagued by problems and resistance to carbon pricing has come from...
Globalising the Climate: COP21 and the climatisation of global debates
1st Edition
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By Stefan Aykut, Jean Foyer, Edouard Morena
June 07, 2019
Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and ...
Local Action on Climate Change: Opportunities and Constraints
1st Edition
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By Susie Moloney, Hartmut Fünfgeld, Mikael Granberg
June 06, 2019
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better ...
Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics: Religion and the Environment
1st Edition
By Emma Bloomfield
May 28, 2019
Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations. Despite the scientifically established threats of climate change, there remains a segment of the...
Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean
1st Edition
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By Elizabeth Thomas Hope
March 05, 2019
Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security – availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate ...
Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits: Implementation of win-win interventions in cities
1st Edition
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By Christopher Doll, Jose Puppim de Oliveira
January 11, 2019
Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide services, infrastructure and socio-economic opportunities. How do we achieve the global goals on climate...
The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics
1st Edition
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By Adrian Walsh, Säde Hormio, Duncan Purves
January 10, 2019
Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies. Economic climate models provide estimates of the value of mitigation benefits, provide understanding of the costs of reducing emissions, ...
Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities: Governance for a more resilient urban future
1st Edition
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By Diane Archer, Sarah Colenbrander, David Dodman
September 27, 2018
The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the New Urban Agenda. Asia is home to many of the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change ...
Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
1st Edition
By Merrill Singer
August 22, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is ...