Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Climate Change Finance and International Law
1st Edition
By Alexander Zahar
June 28, 2018
Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime – the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes,...
Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic: An interdisciplinary analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Paivi Naskali, Marjaana Seppänen, Shahnaj Begum
April 25, 2018
The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern. Rapid climate change and ageing of the population are transforming the living conditions in the region. This translates into an urgent need for information that will contribute to a better understanding of these ...
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated Critical Perspective
2nd Edition
By Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer
March 29, 2018
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the ...
Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change: Advancing Decision-Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Todd Schenk
January 08, 2018
Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved, including relationships between different actors; funding ...
Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of race, class and gender
1st Edition
Edited
By Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres
January 03, 2018
It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices. Emergent Possibilities for...
Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime mobilisation as a model for action?
1st Edition
By Laurence Delina
January 03, 2018
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2°C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed – in the scale and speed required for effective climate action – using an analogy provided by the mobilisation for a war that...
Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, David Hulme
January 03, 2018
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies ...
Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, people and places
1st Edition
By Linda Connor
December 21, 2017
Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence – fundamental when thinking about climate change. This book offers a new way of exploring the significance of locality and lives in the epoch of the Anthropocene, a time when...
Community Action and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Jennifer Kent
December 21, 2017
The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. ...
Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of race, class and gender
1st Edition
Edited
By Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres
December 21, 2017
Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate. Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change...
Reimagining Climate Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Wapner, Hilal Elver
June 16, 2017
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory...
Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Ari Paloviita, Marja Järvelä
May 25, 2017
The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities. The direct climate change risks faced by the agricultural sector are therefore also risks to businesses and food supply chains. Hence the importance of resilience at farm level, community level and...