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By Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra
June 28, 2024
This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. Despite efforts for mitigation, global emission levels continue to ...
By Jeremy Winston Webb
June 21, 2024
Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts. The book starts with a summary of the climate change problem and develops a Climate Change, National Interests, International Cooperation (...
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By Thorsten Heimann, Jamie Sommer, Margarethe Kusenbach, Gabriela Christmann
January 29, 2024
Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed. Whereas existing studies of climate cultural differences are predominantly rooted in a ...
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By Ndivhuho Tshikovhi, Andréa Santos, Xiaolong Zou, Fulufhelo Netswera, Irina Zotovna Yarygina, Sriram Divi
December 29, 2023
This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) to reshape global climate governance and explore areas for mutual cooperation. BRICS countries account ...
By Nicholas Low
December 22, 2023
This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse. Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a ...
By Gerald Kutney
December 04, 2023
Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change. Organized around the administrations of American presidents from Roosevelt to Biden, this book ...
By Matti Goldberg
December 01, 2023
This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus. Climate change might give the Soviet Union a competitive advantage in the Cold War. Extreme droughts contributed to wars in Darfur, Syria or Yemen. Melting sea ice creates geopolitical risks....
By Rani Muthukrishnan, Ranjan Datta
December 01, 2023
This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions. This book will be one of the first academic books to use the consciousness framework to examine and explain humans' situatedness and role in maintaining ecosystems' health. Drawing on teachings from the ...
By Gisele Arruda, Lara Johannsdottir
November 30, 2023
This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region. Bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance assesses the costs of ...
By Ben L. Parr
November 29, 2023
This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Both have attracted strong scholarly attention in each of their respective research silos, but there ...
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By Philani Moyo
October 27, 2023
Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa in furthering climate-resilient development. Climate Action in Southern Africa examines the intrinsic connection between local climate actions, climate-resilient ...
By Jarkko Saarinen, Jennifer Fitchett, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn
September 25, 2023
This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of...