Climate change Books

Book SynopsisPerspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantagesand potential drawbacksof Trade Review"An impressive volume whose international focus allows for cutting-edge comparative assessment in regards to the role of cities in addressing today’s environmental challenges. Global Sustainable Cities will contribute significantly to the literature on the role of major cities as they work to advance sustainability through innovative transportation, infrastructure, and energy initiatives." -- Vanessa Casado Pérez, Texas A&M University"Global Sustainable Cities features a phenomenal lineup of contributors whose topics, narrative arc, and implications create a readable, highly compelling volume. Taken altogether, the revealing case studies highlighted in these essays convincingly make the case for the centrality of cities to environmental law." -- Nestor Davidson, Faculty Director, Urban Law Center, Fordham University"An important volume that fills a gap in the literature on cities and climate change. While many have argued that cities are and should be significant actors in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and averting the worst impacts of climate disasters, this book illustrates how different kinds of cities are doing so. The book is also important for its comparative examination of cities' environmental and climate actions across geographic regions and political systems. Any future assessment of cities' roles in maintaining environmental quality and addressing climate change should begin with this impressive volume." -- Sheila R. Foster, Georgetown University, author of Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities"This important, timely and interesting book explores the current landscape of environmental leadership - examining both their strengths and weaknesses. It provides ample support for the important idea that it is in cities that we can act rapidly to address climate change and its consequences - because we must." -- David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and author of Solved: How the Great Cities of the World Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

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Book SynopsisHow gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warmingWe've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing can make a difference in combating this ongoing global catastrophe. How can we mobilize to save the world when we feel this depressed? Stay Cool enjoins us to laugh our way forward. Human beings have used comedy to cope with difficult realities since the beginning of recorded timethe more dismal the news, the darker the humor. Using this rich tradition of dark comedy to investigate climate change, Aaron Sachs makes the case that gallows humor, a mainstay of African Americans and Jews facing extraordinary oppression, can cultivate endurance, persistence, and solidarity in the face of calamity. Sachs surveys the macabre tradition of laughing during great suffering, from the Black Plague to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906and offers some of the earliest examples of superlative dark comedy. HTrade ReviewSachs is like the Stephen Colbert of scholars—wicked funny and smart, dead serious, and utterly friendly and accessible, all while explaining why it’s so urgent to have a good laugh as we deal with the climate crisis. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry. * Jenny Price, author of Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto *Punchy, clarifying, and invigorating. Even while maintaining a happily irreverent tone, Stay Cool explores a deep question: how the environmental movement might learn from previous social movements that kept up their catalytic energy rather than succumb to despondency and defeatism. It is a book perfectly attuned to the challenges of our moment. * Scott Saul, author of Becoming Richard Pryor *Aaron Sachs’ insights burn hot. While ever careful not to minimize our current straits, he guides us toward a sustainable way to think about, well, sustainability. Gallows humor, self-deprecation, the trickster’s ploys—all have served to inoculate those considered without history from the forces of history. Stay Cool recognizes the importance of remembering that within our frail humanity is the possibility of being better, and that one good way to start addressing our climate needs is to learn to laugh at our fallibility, if only so that we are prepared for the not-so-funny work ahead. * Jonathan Holloway, President, Rutgers University, and author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans *Aaron Sachs’s central message in Stay Cool is if you want to survive catastrophe—whether one brought on by people or nature—don’t be alarmist, and definitely don’t be earnest and moralistic. Be funny. * Cindy Ott, author of Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon *Feeling in the depths of despair about the future of our planet? As someone who can relate to getting the ‘climate blues,’ I encourage others in the planetary doldrums to read this book! Sachs will challenge your ideas about what climate change activism might look like—and will do so in ways that may lighten your mood at the same time. * Rachel Bezner Kerr, Cornell University, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change *Declaring that the sanctimonious tones of environmentalists have a demotivating impact, this book muses on how humor might be more effective. It meditates on the role of morale in social movements, noting places where oppressed people turned despondency into determination and defiance, shifting their perspectives toward humor and hope amid despair. Stay Cool encourages a fresh, creative approach to addressing one of the biggest challenges of the time—climate change. * Foreword Reviews *Entertaining and informative. Sachs goes beyond citing papers that back up his thesis. He references many other publications, podcasts, and humorists, almost everything we need to know as the waters rise up before us, and the land behind us burns away, when what we’ll need is a damn good laugh. If it’s too late for that, well then, the joke will be on us. -- JoeAnn Hart * EcoLit Book Review *

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Book SynopsisThe weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena.

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Book SynopsisOur Changing Menu helps us understand how to think about food, rather than what to think. The diversity of the co-authors'' experiences is woven together to create awareness and help us get involved in improving our diets, while reducing food waste and food''s impacts on climate change and the planet. Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Markets, World Wildlife FundOur Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you''re a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it''s time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system.Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the Trade ReviewOur Changing Menu is a detailed, lively overview of how the world's most popular eats arrive to the table under more and more challenging conditions... The book's concise analysis of climate science and its effects on water, soil, pests, pollinators, and pathogens is engaging and accessible. * Foreword Review *Our Changing Menu is an excellent introduction to the science behind our changing planet and the problems presented by climate change. Where the book is most successful is the way it takes a massive problem, and breaks it down into solutions that can lead to meaningful action. * Stone Pier Press *This book is very well researched and easy to read. It is also recommended for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge about global food systems and how we can keep on enjoying the foods we know and love in an uncertain time of global change. * Green Teacher *Table of ContentsIntroduction BACKGROUND: SETTING THE TABLE 1. Our Food Supply: From Land and Sea to the Menu 2. Our Changing Climate 3. Climate Change: How It Is Fundamentally Altering the Menu THE MENU 4. Beer, Wine, and Spirits: Raise Your Glass 5. Salads: Distinct, Diverse, Delicious 6. The Main Course 7. Grains, Starches, and Other Sides 8. Dessert and Coffee SOLUTIONS: TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVING THE MENU 9. Farmers, Businesses, and Scientists: How They Are Helping 10. What We Can Do

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Book SynopsisBangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. In Threatening Dystopias, Kasia Paprocki investigates the politics of climate change adaptation throughout the South Asian nation. Drawing on ethnographic and archival fieldwork, she engages with developers, policy makers, scientists, farmers, and rural migrants to show how Bangladeshi and global elites ignore the history of landscape transformation and its attendant political conflicts. Paprocki looks at how groups craft economic narratives and strategies that redistribute power and resources away from peasant communities. Although these groups claim that increased production of export commodities will reframe the threat of climate change into an opportunity for economic development and growth, the reality is not so simple. For the country''s rural poor, these promises ring hollow. As development dispossesses the poor from agrarian livelihoods, outmigration Trade ReviewThreatening Dystopias offers a revealing political ecological analysis of climate change adaption in the southwestern Khulna region of Bangladesh, a place extremely vulnerable to threats posed by the climate crisis. Paprocki writes with great eloquence[.] Threatening Dystopias is a masterful study of the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. * London School of Economics and Political Science Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Sluttish, Careless, Rotting Abundance": Prehistories of a Climate Dystopia 2. Threatening Dystopias: Development and Adaptation Regimes 3. Opportunity/Crisis: Knowledge Production and the Politics of Uncertainty 4. The Social Life of Climate Science: Circulations of Knowledge and Uncertainty in Development Practice 5. Autopsy of a Village: Agrarian Change after the Shrimp Boom 6. We Have Come This Far—We Cannot Retreat": Adaptation, Resistance, and Competing Visions of Transformed Futures Conclusion: Climate Justice and the Politics of Possibility

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Book SynopsisHow extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change. Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences. Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice. The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.Trade Review"Global Burning is as powerful as it is succinct. Eve Darian-Smith writes with urgent clarity and conceptual richness as she grapples with some of the most pressing issues of our times. Global Burning is a very teachable book—truly interdisciplinary and international in reach."—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"In a daring move that combines the familiar and the unexpected, Eve Darian-Smith adds anti-environmentalism as a distinctive dimension to our understanding of the global rise of extreme far-right governments. Anti-environmentalism assumes a whole range of new meanings in this book –including willful denials of what we know will be disastrous effects."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"Global Burning is a brilliant analysis of how a range of anti-democratic trends can be viewed through the lens of catastrophic wildfires across the globe. If you want to understand how to analyze and become involved in a politics of collective resistance aimed at saving both the planet and democracy itself, this is the book to read."—Henry Giroux, author of Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis"As this clearly-argued book makes evident: too much of our politics has aided the forces heating our atmosphere and drying out our forests. It's time to stop." —Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?"This is a book I want my students to read, this is a book my friends and family will read. Simultaneously devastating and hopeful, it repositions the significance of Indigenous ecological knowledge as a key source for worldwide wellbeing." —Jane McMillan, former Canadian Research Chair of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities"The threat of extinction is real and immediate, but Eve Darian-Smith rightfully warns that it cannot be effectively thwarted unless we link the fight for environmental survival with the struggles against global, class, racial, and gender inequalities. A persuasive, solidly documented work." —Walden Bello, co-founder of Focus on the Global South and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award"In Global Burning, Darian-Smith attempts to assemble a big-picture puzzle from a disparate set of pieces... [B]y the end of the book attentive readers may well have seen enough to have their political views altered. Things that didn't seem to be connected before will feel linked by more than daily news coincidences."—Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connections"In Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, Eve Darian-Smithconnects wildfires to the broader economic, social and political issues underlying climate change, exploring how they have become important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity. This is a timely and thought-provoking book that shows that there will be no magic solution to our current predicament until we collectively embrace a fundamental rethinking of human-nature relations and life beyond capitalism." –Dr. Sibo Chen, LSE Review of Books"Global Burning is an accessible and deftly weaved portrayal of the dire situation humanity and all forms of life on earth are facing. It is also a book consumed without sugarcoating... Yet, Darian-Smith never resorts to fatalism. Rather, it is an urgent reality check and call to action." –Jeffrey Bachman, The Developing Economies"Darian-Smith invites the reader to consider wildfires as the catalyst for political disruption and as the end result of parallel political movements and themes that are occurring globally."—Derek Moscato, H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Fire as Omen: Introduction 2. Fire as Profit: Global Corporations Rule 3. Fire as Weapon: Rising Global Authoritarianism 4. Fire as Death: Violent Environmental Racism 5. Fire as Disruption: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGlobal climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate. Some even argue that authoritarian regimes are better equipped to make the tough choices required to tackle the climate crisis.In this incisive book, Daniel Fiorino challenges the assumptions and evidence offered by sceptics of democracy and its capacity to handle climate change. Democracies, he explains, typically enjoy higher levels of environmental performance and produce greater innovation in technology, policy, and climate governance than autocracies. Rather than less democracy, Fiorino calls for a more accountable and responsive politics that will provide democratically-elected governments with the enhanced capacity for collective action on climate and other environmental issues.Table of ContentsTables and box Acknowledgements Preface 1 The Challenge to Governance 2 Do Authoritarian Regimes Do Better? 3 Why Democracies Differ 4 How Democracies Will Handle Climate Change Notes Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThe supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to put a limit on carbon emissions, thereby raising the price of fossil fuels and generating strong incentives for clean energy. But there is a formidable hurdle: how do we secure broad public support for a policy that increases fuel costs for consumers? Boyce powerfully argues that carbon pricing can be made just and politically durable only if linked to returning the revenue to the public as carbon dividends. Founded on the principle that the gifts of nature belong to us all, not to corporations or governments, this bold reform could spark a twenty-first-century clean energy revolution. Essential reading for all concerned citizens, policy-makers, and students of public policy and environmental economics, this book will be a transformative contribution to one of the most important policy debates of our era.Trade Review“A wonderfully clear-headed account of how we can fight both climate change and widening inequality. If there’s to be a Green New Deal, this is the kind of policy we’ll need.”Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor “Carbon dividends are key to dealing with the threats of a changing climate. Read this book to learn about an important part of the solution.”George P. Shultz, former US Secretary of State “Boyce makes clear the one climate policy that would work.”James Hansen, former director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies "The threat of climate change is real. But action is still too little, too late. This book provides a bold and disruptive idea that could shape the new wave of policy and action on climate change. It would be ambitious, leading the world to drastically cut emissions, and also equitable, ensuring cooperation in action."Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi "Congress must act to stop the rising damage and costs of climate change -- and that action must be based on sound scientific research. The carbon cap and dividend approach is a simple and fair way to require polluters to pay and put the money into the pockets of American taxpayers. And thanks to Professor Boyce’s research, we know just how effective it can be." U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen"This crisply written book makes a compelling – and highly accessible – case for using carbon pricing to tackle the twin challenges of our time: climate change and income inequality. Covering the science, the markets, and the politics, Boyce argues that a carbon dividend strategy is simple, effective, and fair. Regardless of where one falls in the nuances of the climate policy debate, this is a gem of a volume."Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, University of Southern California "Hooray for James Boyce’s Case for Carbon Dividends. In clear and compelling English, it explains the carbon pollution challenge and makes the case for citizen dividends as a straightforward solution. Too many global warming debates proceed in highly technical terms, leaving regular citizens – rightly -- worried that they will pay the price for new taxes and rules. But carbon dividends – equal remittances from carbon tax revenues sent to every American man, woman, and child each year -- are easy to understand, impose more costs on rich households that currently use more dirty energy, and would leave most working and middle-class families as net winners. This primer should kick start many community debates, because it tells us exactly how the United States can make rapid progress toward a green economy and become a more equal democracy in the process."Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University, and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network "This is the best thing ever written on the subject. Clear, eloquent and irrefutable, it’s a must-read for all concerned with surviving the 21st century."Peter Barnes, author of With Liberty and Dividends for All "People fight climate change when they believe in a solution. Boyce's guide to carbon dividends is the indispensable guide for what's big, bold, fair and strong enough for the job. We need this book!"Camila Thorndike, co-founder, Our Climate "We define the atmosphere as a common property resource, so we can understand carbon dividends as payments by users of the resource to its owners – this is economic democracy. James Boyce uses principles of equity and economic efficiency to build a practical strategy to address climate change."Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Why Cut Carbon? 2. Why a Price on Carbon? 3. What is Carbon Rent? 4. The Carbon Dividend Frequently Asked Questions Further Reading Notes

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Book SynopsisThe supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to put a limit on carbon emissions, thereby raising the price of fossil fuels and generating strong incentives for clean energy. But there is a formidable hurdle: how do we secure broad public support for a policy that increases fuel costs for consumers? Boyce powerfully argues that carbon pricing can be made just and politically durable only if linked to returning the revenue to the public as carbon dividends. Founded on the principle that the gifts of nature belong to us all, not to corporations or governments, this bold reform could spark a twenty-first-century clean energy revolution. Essential reading for all concerned citizens, policy-makers, and students of public policy and environmental economics, this book will be a transformative contribution to one of the most important policy debates of our era.Trade Review"A wonderfully clear-headed account of how we can fight both climate change and widening inequality. If there’s to be a Green New Deal, this is the kind of policy we’ll need.” Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor “Carbon dividends are key to dealing with the threats of a changing climate. Read this book to learn about an important part of the solution.”George P. Shultz, former US Secretary of State “Boyce makes clear the one climate policy that would work.”James Hansen, former director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies "The threat of climate change is real. But action is still too little, too late. This book provides a bold and disruptive idea that could shape the new wave of policy and action on climate change. It would be ambitious, leading the world to drastically cut emissions, and also equitable, ensuring cooperation in action."Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi "Congress must act to stop the rising damage and costs of climate change -- and that action must be based on sound scientific research. The carbon cap and dividend approach is a simple and fair way to require polluters to pay and put the money into the pockets of American taxpayers. And thanks to Professor Boyce’s research, we know just how effective it can be." U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen"This crisply written book makes a compelling – and highly accessible – case for using carbon pricing to tackle the twin challenges of our time: climate change and income inequality. Covering the science, the markets, and the politics, Boyce argues that a carbon dividend strategy is simple, effective, and fair. Regardless of where one falls in the nuances of the climate policy debate, this is a gem of a volume."Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, University of Southern California "Hooray for James Boyce’s Case for Carbon Dividends. In clear and compelling English, it explains the carbon pollution challenge and makes the case for citizen dividends as a straightforward solution. Too many global warming debates proceed in highly technical terms, leaving regular citizens – rightly -- worried that they will pay the price for new taxes and rules. But carbon dividends – equal remittances from carbon tax revenues sent to every American man, woman, and child each year -- are easy to understand, impose more costs on rich households that currently use more dirty energy, and would leave most working and middle-class families as net winners. This primer should kick start many community debates, because it tells us exactly how the United States can make rapid progress toward a green economy and become a more equal democracy in the process."Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University, and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network "This is the best thing ever written on the subject. Clear, eloquent and irrefutable, it’s a must-read for all concerned with surviving the 21st century."Peter Barnes, author of With Liberty and Dividends for All "People fight climate change when they believe in a solution. Boyce's guide to carbon dividends is the indispensable guide for what's big, bold, fair and strong enough for the job. We need this book!"Camila Thorndike, co-founder, Our Climate "We define the atmosphere as a common property resource, so we can understand carbon dividends as payments by users of the resource to its owners – this is economic democracy. James Boyce uses principles of equity and economic efficiency to build a practical strategy to address climate change."Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the FutureTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Why Cut Carbon? 2. Why a Price on Carbon? 3. What is Carbon Rent? 4. The Carbon Dividend Frequently Asked Questions Further Reading Notes

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Book SynopsisIs climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.Trade Review‘A valuable and timely contribution to the study of environmentalism. Given the seriousness of global climate change, this book provides a window into how ecomodernism fits within the broader framework of contemporary environmental thought.’Jennifer Moore Bernstein, University of Southern California ‘This book is a much-needed corrective to the misconception of ecomodernism as neoliberal techno-optimism. Symons locates ecomodernism firmly within the tradition and logic of social democracy by advancing its most urgent, practical argument – that state-directed low-carbon innovation must be at the heart of our climate response.’Steve Rayner, University of Oxford ‘an upbeat perspective on what might be possible when climate emergency management focuses on state-led innovation and universal development.’ Financial Adviser ​ Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Thirty Years Crisis Chapter 2: Ecomodernism and its Critics Chapter 3: Assessing the Technological Challenge Chapter 4: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation Chapter 5: Human Flourishing Amid Climate Harms Chapter 6: Global Social Democracy and Geoengineering Justice Conclusion: Climate and its Metaphors Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale. Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and maintaining market-based policies render them ineffective nearly everywhere they have been applied. Reforms can help around the margins, but markets’ problems are structural and won’t disappear with increasing demand for climate solutions. Facing that reality requires relying more heavily on smart regulation and industrial policy – government-led strategies – to catalyze the transformation that markets promise, but rarely deliver.Trade Review“Cullenward and Victor provide a refreshingly honest and pragmatic perspective on this complex field. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in climate policy and carbon pricing.”David Wright, University of Calgary “This is a must-read for policymakers, especially the climate intelligentsia who believe that market-based policies are a panacea for the existential threat of climate change. Cullenward and Victor shatter that myth and chart a better course based on proven models that achieve tangible results.”Kevin de León, California Senate President Emeritus “I have spent my career trying to answer the question posed by Cullenward and Victor – how to make climate policy work. This book provides a compelling answer: the deep decarbonization the world needs will only be achieved when governments commit to a vision of transformation that all actors can work towards.”Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation, Founder of IDDRI

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Book SynopsisThe world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right, after years of denying the reality of climate change, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality, however, their noxious blend of conspiracy, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. No-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism.Trade Review“An urgent and comprehensive survey of the risks generated by the nature politics of today's far right – and how to fight them.”Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism “Since the attacks in Christchurch and El Paso in 2019, public discussion of ecofascism has become more urgent than ever. This book adds substantially to our understanding of a challenging subject through critical examination of rapidly evolving environmental politics on the far right.”Peter Staudenmaier, co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience “Essential reading for anyone concerned with politics in a warming world.”Andreas Malm, co-author of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism“The book ranges widely […], from individual terrorists and the fringes of the internet to main stream political parties.”Adam Weymouth, Resurgence & Ecologist“a captivating and important read.”International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A History of Far-Right Ecologism 2. The far right and nature now 3. Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements 4. Deadly Ecofascist Violence 5. Towards Ecofascism Proper? Notes

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Book SynopsisExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric “Mammoth steppe” ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity— and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of “discontinuity,” Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.Trade Review "A myth-busting, pioneering ride through climactic upheaval in the Russian Arctic, where extinction is not an end but a becoming. Charlotte Wrigley’s tales of life and matter, death and survival co-mingle, surprise, disrupt, and provoke. Masterful riffs about time across scales reimagine worlds beyond the hubris of scientific technofixes and other false promises of redemption."—Jennifer E. Telesca, author of Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna "Charlotte Wrigley challenges what we know—or think we know—about permafrost, the finality of extinction, and the role humans play in the Anthropocene. An engaging and thought-provoking read."—Jonathan C. Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl "Grounded in the permafrost landscapes of northern Siberia, Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood traverses issues fundamental to our time: the meanings of extinction, the experiences of earth-shaking change, the seductions of engineering both genetic and geological. Told through the many lives—and possible death—of permafrost, Charlotte Wrigley’s theoretically rich narrative pushes us to imagine better worlds."—Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait "Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood rewards its readers with its sensory experience and its philosophical meditations, arming them with new questions with which to challenge their own slow-churning surroundings."—Science Magazine "Wrigley’s sustained and disparate application of the notion of discontinuity to a wide array of environmental questions makes for a sophisticated, thought-provoking, and often brilliant exploration that enriches scholars’ understandings of how non-living entities can intrude into human endeavors in unexpected ways."—Andy Bruno, The Russian Review

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Book SynopsisExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric “Mammoth steppe” ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity— and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of “discontinuity,” Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.Trade Review "A myth-busting, pioneering ride through climactic upheaval in the Russian Arctic, where extinction is not an end but a becoming. Charlotte Wrigley’s tales of life and matter, death and survival co-mingle, surprise, disrupt, and provoke. Masterful riffs about time across scales reimagine worlds beyond the hubris of scientific technofixes and other false promises of redemption."—Jennifer E. Telesca, author of Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna "Charlotte Wrigley challenges what we know—or think we know—about permafrost, the finality of extinction, and the role humans play in the Anthropocene. An engaging and thought-provoking read."—Jonathan C. Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl "Grounded in the permafrost landscapes of northern Siberia, Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood traverses issues fundamental to our time: the meanings of extinction, the experiences of earth-shaking change, the seductions of engineering both genetic and geological. Told through the many lives—and possible death—of permafrost, Charlotte Wrigley’s theoretically rich narrative pushes us to imagine better worlds."—Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait "Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood rewards its readers with its sensory experience and its philosophical meditations, arming them with new questions with which to challenge their own slow-churning surroundings."—Science Magazine "Wrigley’s sustained and disparate application of the notion of discontinuity to a wide array of environmental questions makes for a sophisticated, thought-provoking, and often brilliant exploration that enriches scholars’ understandings of how non-living entities can intrude into human endeavors in unexpected ways."—Andy Bruno, The Russian Review

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Book SynopsisThe globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environmental studies, economics and sociology, this urgent book uses a multifaceted theoretical and methodological approach to delve into core questions and concerns surrounding migration, climate change and conflict, providing invaluable insights into one of the most pressing global issues of our time.Trade Review“A timely investigation…at a moment when such debates as the classification of climate refugees or effective, rights‐based governance in a changing global environment are centerstage.” World Medical and Health PolicyTable of ContentsEnvironmental and resource-related conflicts, migration and governance; Tim Krieger, Diana Panke and Michael Pregernig Renewable resource scarcity, conflicts, and migration; Tobias Ide Extractive resources, conflicts, and migration; Indra de Soysa Climate change, conflicts, and migration; Lisa Thalheimer and Christian Webersik The individual level: Selection effects; Diane C. Bates The individual level: Sorting effects; Tim Krieger, Laura Renner and Lena Schmid Migration governance on the state level: Policy developments and effects; Marc Helbling Environmental migration governance on the regional level; Federica Cristani, Elisa Fornalé and Sandra Lavenex Migration governance at the global level: Intergovernmental organizations and environmental change-induced migration; Martin Geiger The link between forced migration and conflict; Seraina Rüegger and Heidrun Bohnet Conflict-prone minerals, forced migration and norm dynamics in the Kimberley Process and ICGLR; J. Andrew Grant On the nexus between environmental conflict, migration and governance ─ concluding remarks. - Günther G. Schulze

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Book SynopsisLeading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.Trade Review"White's overall message is one of critique, connectivity, inclusion and collective enterprise. For him, a climate change criminology requires us to get to know our planet - what is going on where and why, and what we can do about it. It is an ambitious transdisciplinary challenge, but a sensible one it is hard to argue against it. There is no more pressing problem facing the continuation of the human species and Rob White has ensured that green criminology asserts a central place in the future of humanity and that of all living things." Reece Walters, Queensland University of Technology"With this book, Rob White is breaking new ground. The book is an important addition to the climate change literature. White establishes here the urgency of knowing who is doing what to prevent, stop, encourage and/or expand climate change, as well as the injustices produced by the phenomenon." Ragnhild Sollund, University of OsloTable of ContentsClimate change and criminology Global warming as ecocide In the heat of the moment Climate change catastrophes and social intersections Climate change victims Carbon criminals Criminal justice responses to climate change Criminological responses to climate change

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Book SynopsisThis urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.Table of ContentsDeclarations: Root and Branch Unthinking Alternate: Jane Jacobs’ Legacy Inside Out: Twelve Antithesis Authenticating Cities Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban Not Modern Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption?

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Book SynopsisThis urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.Table of ContentsDeclarations: Root and Branch Unthinking Alternate: Jane Jacobs’ Legacy Inside Out: Twelve Antithesis Authenticating Cities Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban Not Modern Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption?

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic gives an opportunity to relaunch global economic systems with a better balance between the social and environmental dimensions. There is a need for a scientifically-based step towards a strong Green Deal: a Climate Pact for the EU. Based on a bestselling French book, this English translation provides a summary of the facts on the climate issue, the solutions available and their costs. It outlines the political advantages and challenges current policy, practice and thinking at a time when populist leaders are transforming politics worldwide. This timely book will contribute to a renewed political vision for the EU, the European Economic Area, the UK and Africa.Table of ContentsPreface – Mary Robinson How We Can Win the Battle - Nicolas Hulot 2020 – A Warning Shot 1. Our Home Is Burning, and We Are Looking Elsewhere 2. Global Warming: The Essential Cause Is Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions 3. “Soon It Will Be Too Late…” Say 15,000 Scientists 4. When the UN Environment Programme Denounces “…This Catastrophic Climate Gap” Between the Reductions Needed and the National Pledges… 5. Zero Net Carbon Emissions? Yes, It’s Possible 6. Can We Make a Colossal Development Program Work? We Can Do It! 7. 1,000 Billion Euros for the Climate? If They Are Really Needed Yes, We Can Do It! 8. Putting Finance Back to the Service of the Common Good: The European Climate-Employment Pact 9. Save the Climate, and Save Europe? It’s Now or Never! Conclusion: Creating a New Development Model

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Book SynopsisPolitical elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy. Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. Such transformative mobilisations can fulfil the popular slogan, ‘System Change Not Climate Change’. This book develops key critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas.Table of Contents1. Introduction to techno-market fixes versus system change 2. Techno-market fixes provoke controversies and alternatives: the big picture 3. EU’s agribiotech fix: stimulating blockages and agroecological alternatives 4. EU’s biofuels fix: prioritising an investment climate 5. UK waste incineration fix: perpetuating and displacing waste burdens 6. Green New Deal agendas: system change versus continuity 7. Conclusion: What social agency for system change?

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Book SynopsisIn the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe? There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. It comes at the price of accepting that our condition is tragic. That, in turn, calls for a harsher, more revolutionary approach to the demands of the emergency than most activists have yet been prepared to adopt. This is a book to think with, to argue and disagree with – and to hope with.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hope, Realism and the Climate Crisis 1. The Demands of Realism 2. Transformation? 3. Creating Possibility 4. Responsibility Beyond Morality 5. The Bounds of Utopia 6. Climate Crisis as Tragedy 7. On the Way to Revolution 8. The New Revolutionary Dynamic 9. The Vanguard of Hope

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Book SynopsisIn the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe? There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. It comes at the price of accepting that our condition is tragic. That, in turn, calls for a harsher, more revolutionary approach to the demands of the emergency than most activists have yet been prepared to adopt. This is a book to think with, to argue and disagree with – and to hope with.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hope, Realism and the Climate Crisis 1. The Demands of Realism 2. Transformation? 3. Creating Possibility 4. Responsibility Beyond Morality 5. The Bounds of Utopia 6. Climate Crisis as Tragedy 7. On the Way to Revolution 8. The New Revolutionary Dynamic 9. The Vanguard of Hope

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In recent years, climate litigation has become an important subject of global scholarly and policy interest. However, developments within the Global South, particularly in Africa, have been largely neglected. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation. Chapters engage with crucial themes such as human rights approaches to climate governance, corporate liability and the role of gender in climate litigation. Spanning a range of approaches and jurisdictions, the book challenges universal concepts around climate and the role of activism (including litigation) in seeking to advance climate governance.Table of Contents1. Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts – Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede Part 1: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers 2. Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation - Tracy-Lynn Field 3. State Duty to ‘Protect’ Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation – Ademola Oluborode Jegede 4. Litigation against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for global Climate Litigation to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions – Nicole Loser 5. Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon - Daniel Armel Owona Mbarga Part 2: Rights-Based Approaches 6. The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before the African Regional Human Rights Bodies - Elsabe Boshoff 7. Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach – Judge John Mativo 8. The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate – Fiona Batt 9. Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation against Private Actors – Pia Rebelo 10. Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change – Sanita van Wyk Part 3: Justice, Equity and Activism 11. Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice - Eghosa O. Ekhator 12. Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study - Riyad Fakhri and Youness Lazrak Hassouni 13. Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives - Pedi Obani 14. Future citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism - Bright Nkrumah

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Book SynopsisBased on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it. With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South’s pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future. With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed for meaningful and sustainable climate action. Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it—with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives. In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations | ix Bodies under the UNFCCC | xiii Introduction: The Climate Regime | 1 1 How to COP | 11 2 The Voice of Bangladesh | 38 3 Who Wants to Be a Negotiator? | 59 4 Politics in Between-Spaces | 78 5 Accounting for Change in the Paris Agreement | 104 6 A Thrice-Told Tale of Negotiations | 123 7 The House of Loss and Damage | 154 Conclusion: The Gift of the Global South | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 185 Bibliography | 195 Index | 219

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Book SynopsisBased on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it. With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South’s pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future. With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed for meaningful and sustainable climate action. Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it—with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives. In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations | ix Bodies under the UNFCCC | xiii Introduction: The Climate Regime | 1 1 How to COP | 11 2 The Voice of Bangladesh | 38 3 Who Wants to Be a Negotiator? | 59 4 Politics in Between-Spaces | 78 5 Accounting for Change in the Paris Agreement | 104 6 A Thrice-Told Tale of Negotiations | 123 7 The House of Loss and Damage | 154 Conclusion: The Gift of the Global South | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 185 Bibliography | 195 Index | 219

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the concepts behind the popular understanding of climate and global warming. The author provides readers with a survey and reference to the subject to be used before, during and after they delve into the details of statistics, dynamics and thermodynamics. Dynamic Climatology reviews the basic concepts in the study of dynamic climatology, their expression in the form of equations and the physics of models used to reproduce the weather phenomena of a specific location. It takes a historical approach concentrating on the development of ideas during the last four hundred years. Unlike most books in this field, which are devoted to a single aspect of dynamic climatology, the intent of this volume is to present a coherent narrative of the different components of climate thus providing a solid basis of understanding.Trade Review"One of the best textbooks I have read... In not trying to do too much it achieves everything." Times Higher Education Supplement "Graduate students and advanced undergraduates will find this book very useful for both refreshing forgotten material and learning the essentials of atmosphere science for the first time. Carefully and clearly written, interesting historical accounts enliven most topics, making for a work that is simultaneously rigorous, concise, and interesting." – Professor James Burt, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Part I: The Field of Dynamic Climatology: . Part II: Mathematics:. 1. Geometry. 2. Differential Calculus. 3. Partial Derivatives. 4. Integral Calculus. 5. Development of Calculus. 6. Vectors. 7. The Exponential and Complex Numbers. 8. Finite Differences. 9. Comment. Part III: Statistics:. 10. Data. 11. One Variable Descriptive Statistics. 12. Two Variables. 13. Dependence. 14. Dependence for More Than One Variable. 15. Comment. Part IV: Mechanics:. 16. Newton's Definitions and Laws. 17. Base Units. 18. Derived Units. 19. Discussion. Part V: Thermodynamics:. 20. Definitions. 21. The Equation of State - The Macroscopic Approach. 22. Atmospheric Composition. 23. Heat. 24. The First Law of Thermodynamics. 25. The Carnot Cycle. 26. Dry Adiabats and Potential Temperature. 27. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. 28. Water. 29. Discussion. Part VI: Radiation: . 30. Early Work. 31. Quanta. 32. Definitions of Laws of Radiation. 33. Applications to the Earth. 34. Comment. Part VII: Atmospheric Equations:. 35. The Nature of Fluids. 36. Continuity - Conservation of Mass. 37. Molecular Viscosity. 38. The Stress Tenor. 39. Navier-Stokes Equations. 40. Turbulent Eddy Viscosity. 41. The Vector Equation of Motion. 42. General Coordinates. 43. Some Simple Solutions. 44. Fluid Rotation. 45. The Equation Set. 46. Comment. Part VIII: Observed Angular Momentum and Energy: . 47. Perspective. 48. Angular Momentum. 49. The Partition of Energy. 50. The Lorenz Model of Energy Flow. 51. Heat Budget. 52. Water Budget. 53. Conversion between Scales of Motion. 54. The General Circulation. Part IX: Towards an Explanation of Climate: . 55. The Problem. 56. Numerical Modeling. 57. Climate Modeling. Part X: Concluding Remarks:. 58. Power Notation. 59. Constants. 60. Conversions. 61. World Data. Index.

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Book SynopsisSo far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places—a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be. Instead of focusing on the economics and geopolitics of the debate over climate change, this book brings large-scale disaster to a human scale, emphasizing the role of the individual. We humans do have the capacity to deal with disasters. When we face threatening changes, we don’t just stand there pretending it isn’t so, we do something. But because we’re human, our responses aren’t always the right ones the first time—yet we can learn to do better. This book is essential reading for all who want to know how we can draw on our strengths to survive the climate catastrophe and forge a new relationship with nature.

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Book SynopsisAn often heartbreaking look at the world’s first epidemic caused by climate change.Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into areas where it was once too cold for them to live. Mary Beth Pfeiffer argues it is the first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, infecting millions around the globe. She tells the heart-rending stories of its victims, families whose lives have been destroyed by a single, often unseen, tick bite. Pfeiffer also warns of the emergence of other tick-borne illnesses that make Lyme more difficult to treat and pose their own grave risks. Lyme is an impeccably researched account of an enigmatic disease, making a powerful case for action to fight ticks, heal patients, and recognise humanity’s role in a modern scourge.'Heart-wrenching...After you read Lyme, the standard advice of 'do your due diligence, check for ticks, stay aware' won't seem adequate...Pfeiffer has delivered a powerful wake-up call.' — Sierra

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Book SynopsisWhat if rhetoric and climate are intimately connected? Taking climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, A Reading Group offers a generative framework for making sense of rhetorical studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by antiracist, decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship to a tradition with a long history of being centered around individual, usually privileged, human agents wielding language as their principal instrument. Understanding the atmospheric and ambient energies of rhetoric underscores the challenges and promises of trying to heal a harmed world from within it. A cowritten “multigraph,” which began in 2018 as a reading group, this book enacts an intimate, mutualistic spirit of shared critical inquiry and play—an exciting new way of doing, thinking, and feeling rhetorical studies by six prominent scholars in rhetoric from communication and English departments alike.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can't be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims climate-change deniers make can seem, on their surface, quite plausible, they simply don't hold up against the evidence: Beyond a shadow of a doubt, science proves that climate change is real and primarily human-driven. But the next time a skeptic puts you on the spot, will you know what to say to end the argument?HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE dismantles all the most pernicious misunderstandings using the strongest explanations science has to offer. Armed with airtight arguments, you'll never be at a loss for words again no matter how convincing or unexpected the misconception you're faced with. And with our planet's future in our hands, the time to change minds is now: The sooner we can agree, once and for all, that climate change is a significant threat to our well-being, the sooner we can start to do something about it.

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Book SynopsisIn November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought solutions within the realm of possibility, the obstacles to enacting real revolution were still many. Now, confronting these controversies head-on, two scholars use a series of ground-breaking arguments to frame the problem in human terms, showing us how vested interests have been able to control the conversation, tracing a line of reasoning that will break through the seemingly impenetrable barriers of political obfuscation. This watershed book evokes the battle cries of Naomi Klein and the exigency of Rachel Carson, laying the groundwork for a path to environmental salvation.Trade Review"...the extended fictional debate illuminates key scientific, social and political complexities, and humanizes an issue often perceived as abstract." -- Nature"Philosophers of science Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller call for constructive discourse on climate change in their unusual exploration of this urgent, highly politicized issue. While coherently explaining the science, they use Socratic dialogue to explore differing viewpoints." -- Mary Craig, Highlights of the Season’s Releases - Nature

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of the Encyclopedia of Climate Change comprises more than 500 essays and extensive back matter written specifically to provide students at high school and undergraduate levels with a comprehensive and convenient source of information on the fundamental science, sociopolitical issues, and controversies surrounding climate change.

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Book SynopsisBreaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate change within the wider crises of the Anthropocene. With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of cli-fi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee. Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler, Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. While the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: An Odd Sort of Cli-Fi? Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow 2: "Hadn't mankind done it before-started from scratch?" Reinterpreting Visions of Past and Future in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy 3: Watering Down? Clare Morrall's When the Floods Came 4: The Archive and After: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Maggie Gee's The Flood Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe signs are there: our coastal cities are increasingly susceptible to flooding as the climate changes. Charleston, South Carolina, is no exception, and is one of the American cities most vulnerable to rising sea levels. Lowcountry at High Tide is the first book to deal with the topographic evolution of Charleston, its history of flooding from the seventeenth century to the present, and the efforts made to keep its populace high and dry, as well as safe and healthy.For centuries residents have made many attempts, both public and private, to manipulate the landscape of the low-lying peninsula on which Charleston sits, surrounded by wetlands, to maximize drainage, and thus buildable land and to facilitate sanitation. Christina Butler uses three hundred years of archival records to show not only the alterations to the landscape past and present, but also the impact those efforts have had on the residents at various socio-economic levels throughout its history.Wide-ranging and thorough, Lowcountry at High Tide goes beyond the documentation of reclamation and filling and offers a look into the life and the history of Charleston and how its people have been affected by its unique environment, as well as examining the responses of the city over time to the needs of the populace. Butler considers interdisciplinary topics from engineering to public health, infrastructure to class struggle, and urban planning to civic responsibility in a study that is not only invaluable to the people of Charleston, but for any coastal city grappling with environmental change.Illustrated with historical maps, plats, and photographs and organized chronologically and thematically within chapters, Lowcountry at High Tide offers a unique look at how Charleston has kept—and may continue to keep—the ocean at bay.

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Book SynopsisWhat if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executive Andy Bowman's book makes exactly this case, outlining what he suggests is a more sustainable future for American capitalism. The West Texas Power Plant that Saved the World takes the Barilla solar plant in Pecos County as a test case for the state of renewable energy in the twenty-first century United States.For author Andy Bowman, this is a very personal story. Bowman grew up in Galveston and acutely remembers watching stormwater climb up seawalls and wreak havoc on his home. He weaves these memories into his coming of age over two decades in the alternative energy industry, beginning in the 1990s, and tracks it's the industry's fits and starts that lead to the Barilla project. Barilla was the first solar project to be built "on spec": essentially, the plant was built without a contract in place and with the assumption that customers would come. That trailblazing wager represents a tidal shift in the alternative energy industry.In a clear voice, Bowman explains the climate science that necessitated this shift and makes business-based arguments for what the future should look like. The result is a book that tells a personal story of West Texan innovation, gumption, and vision, while also outlining how our society needs to equip itself to confront climate change.

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Book SynopsisYou’re not alone. Climate change is happening. Australia – and the world – is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, in Tasmania forests that have never burned before are ablaze. Young and old alike are rightly anxious. Human activity is transforming the places we live in and love. In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, leading Australian writers come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis as the physical world changes all around us. How do we hold onto hope?In this moving and powerful book, some of Australia’s best-known writers and thinkers including Tony Birch, James Bradley, Sophie Cunningham, Delia Falconer, Ashley Hay, Iain McCalman, Ellen van Neerven, Jane Rawson and David Ritter reflect on how we might resist, protect, grieve, adapt and unite. These personal stories – many of them centred around objects - are more than individual responses. They build a picture of a collective endeavour towards cultures of care, respect, and attention – values and actions that we yearn be reflected in the institutions that have power to act on a scale that matches the complexity and enormity of the challenge.Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

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Book SynopsisA leading political philosopher takes on Australia's biggest carbon emitters and their moral responsibilities.It's a shocking fact: the emissions produced annually from the fossil fuels extracted by Australia's major gas, coal and oil producers — Glencore, BHP Yancoal, Peabody, Whitehaven and Anglo-American — and sold here and overseas are larger than the emissions of all 25 million Australians.And if Australia's exported and domestic emissions are combined, Australia ranks as the sixth largest emitter in the world, behind China, USA, India, Russia and Japan. Far from being an insignificant contributor to climate change because of our small population, Australia is a key driver through our fossil fuel exports.How have these companies' exports escaped scrutiny when climate change is such an immediate area of concern around the world?Understanding the moral responsibility of Australia's major carbon emitters is a crucial first step in determining how to fairly share the burdens of a climate transition. In Carbon Justice, leading political philosopher Jeremy Moss sets out an ethical framework to establish the cost of the harms of these major emitters and what they should do about it. What they do next will shape Australia's response to climate change.

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Book SynopsisClimate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create climate change, are the first and hardest impacted, and the least able to protect themselves. Climate justice is simultaneously a movement, an academic field, an organizing principle, and a political demand. Building climate justice is a matter of life and death.Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada. Exemplifying socio-ecological transformation through equitable public engagement, these scholars, climate activists, community educators, and teachers come together to share their stories of participatory research and collective action.Grounded in experience and processes that are currently underway, Climate Justice and Participatory Research explores the value of common assets, collective action, environmental protection, and equitable partnerships between local community experts and academic allies. It demonstrates the negative effects of climate-related actions that run roughshod over local communities' interests and wellbeing, and acknowledges the myriad challenges of participatory research. This is a work committed to the practical work of transforming socio-economies from situations of vulnerability to collective wellbeing.Table of Contents Introduction Participatory Research, Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Commons Build Community-Based Climate ResiliencePatricia E. Perkins Part I: Knowledge Commons Putting Ethos into Practice: Climate Justice Research in the Global Knowledge Commons Kathryn Wells Integrating Citizen Science Observations in Climate Mapping: Lessons from Coastal Zone Geovisualization in Chilean Patagonia and the Brazilian Southeast Allan Yu Iwama, Francisco Brañas, David Núñez, Daniela Collao, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Carla Lanyon, Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Lara da Silva, Petra Benyei, Francisco Ther, and Sarita Albagli Part II: Food, Land, and Agricultural Commons Enhancing Local Sensitives to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Capacities of Smallholder Farmers: Community-Based Participatory Research Ayansina Ayanlade, Abinmola Oluwaranti, Adewale M. Olayiwola, Oluwatoyin S. Ayanlade, Margaret O. Jegede, Lemlem F. Weldemariam, Moses O. Olawole, and Adefunke F.O. Ayinde The Oil-Palm Sector in the Climate Crisis: Resilience and Social Justice in the Municipality of Ngwéi (Littoral-Cameroon) Guy Donald Abassombe, Mesmin Tchindjang, and Vadel Eneckdem Tsopgni Common-Pool Resources and the Governance of Community Gardens: Experimenting with Participatory Research in São Paulo, BrazilKátia Carolino and Marcos Sorrentino Linking Soil and Social-Ecological Resilience with the Climate Agenda: Perspectives from Quilombola communities in the Atlantic Forest, BrazilMarcondes Coelho, Eduardo C. da Silva Neto, Emerson Ramos, Ronaldo dos Santos, Ana P. D. Turetta, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, and Eliane M.R. da Silva Commons Governance and Climate Resilience: Intergovernmental Relationships in the Guapiruvu Community, Brazil Aico Nogueira Part III: Water and Fisheries Commons Mining and Water Insecurity in Brazil: Geo-Participatory Dam Mapping (MapGB) and Community Empowerment Daniela Campolina and Lussandra Gianasi Investigating Citizen Participation in Plans for Lamu Port, Kenya Solomon Njenga Hydroelecticity, Water Rights, Community Mapping, and Indigenous Toponyms in the Queuco River Basin Camila Bañales-Seguel Sentinels of Carelmapu: Participatory Community Monitoring to Protect Indigenous Marinescapes in Southern Chile Francisco Araos, Florencia Diestre, Jaime Cursach, Joaquin Almonacid, Gonzalo Zamorano, Wladimir Riquelme, Francisco Brañas, José Molin-Hueichán, Darlys Vargas, Manuel Lemus, Daniella Ruiz, and Claudio Oyarzún Inequality in Water Access for South Africa's Small-Scale Farmers amid a Climate Crisis: Past and Present Injustices in a Legal Context Patience Mukuyu and Mary Galvin Activist Citizen Science: Building Water Justice in South Africa Ferrial Adam Part IV: Collective Resilience for Climate Justice Conflicting Perspectives in the Global South Just Transition Movement: A Case Study of Mpumalanga Coal Region in South Africa Andries Motau Saving Our "Common Home:" A critical Analysis of the "For Our Common Home" Campaign in AlbertaChrislain Eric Kenfack Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane Youth Climate Activism: Mobilizing for a Common Future Patricia Figueiredo Walker Index

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Book SynopsisClimate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create climate change, are the first and hardest impacted, and the least able to protect themselves. Climate justice is simultaneously a movement, an academic field, an organizing principle, and a political demand. Building climate justice is a matter of life and death.Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada. Exemplifying socio-ecological transformation through equitable public engagement, these scholars, climate activists, community educators, and teachers come together to share their stories of participatory research and collective action.Grounded in experience and processes that are currently underway, Climate Justice and Participatory Research explores the value of common assets, collective action, environmental protection, and equitable partnerships between local community experts and academic allies. It demonstrates the negative effects of climate-related actions that run roughshod over local communities’ interests and wellbeing, and acknowledges the myriad challenges of participatory research. This is a work committed to the practical work of transforming socio-economies from situations of vulnerability to collective wellbeing.Table of Contents Introduction Participatory Research, Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Commons Build Community-Based Climate ResiliencePatricia E. Perkins Part I: Knowledge Commons Putting Ethos into Practice: Climate Justice Research in the Global Knowledge Commons Kathryn Wells Integrating Citizen Science Observations in Climate Mapping: Lessons from Coastal Zone Geovisualization in Chilean Patagonia and the Brazilian Southeast Allan Yu Iwama, Francisco Brañas, David Núñez, Daniela Collao, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Carla Lanyon, Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Lara da Silva, Petra Benyei, Francisco Ther, and Sarita Albagli Part II: Food, Land, and Agricultural Commons Enhancing Local Sensitives to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Capacities of Smallholder Farmers: Community-Based Participatory Research Ayansina Ayanlade, Abinmola Oluwaranti, Adewale M. Olayiwola, Oluwatoyin S. Ayanlade, Margaret O. Jegede, Lemlem F. Weldemariam, Moses O. Olawole, and Adefunke F.O. Ayinde The Oil-Palm Sector in the Climate Crisis: Resilience and Social Justice in the Municipality of Ngwéi (Littoral-Cameroon) Guy Donald Abassombe, Mesmin Tchindjang, and Vadel Eneckdem Tsopgni Common-Pool Resources and the Governance of Community Gardens: Experimenting with Participatory Research in São Paulo, BrazilKátia Carolino and Marcos Sorrentino Linking Soil and Social-Ecological Resilience with the Climate Agenda: Perspectives from Quilombola communities in the Atlantic Forest, BrazilMarcondes Coelho, Eduardo C. da Silva Neto, Emerson Ramos, Ronaldo dos Santos, Ana P. D. Turetta, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, and Eliane M.R. da Silva Commons Governance and Climate Resilience: Intergovernmental Relationships in the Guapiruvu Community, Brazil Aico Nogueira Part III: Water and Fisheries Commons Mining and Water Insecurity in Brazil: Geo-Participatory Dam Mapping (MapGB) and Community Empowerment Daniela Campolina and Lussandra Gianasi Investigating Citizen Participation in Plans for Lamu Port, Kenya Solomon Njenga Hydroelecticity, Water Rights, Community Mapping, and Indigenous Toponyms in the Queuco River Basin Camila Bañales-Seguel Sentinels of Carelmapu: Participatory Community Monitoring to Protect Indigenous Marinescapes in Southern Chile Francisco Araos, Florencia Diestre, Jaime Cursach, Joaquin Almonacid, Gonzalo Zamorano, Wladimir Riquelme, Francisco Brañas, José Molin-Hueichán, Darlys Vargas, Manuel Lemus, Daniella Ruiz, and Claudio Oyarzún Inequality in Water Access for South Africa's Small-Scale Farmers amid a Climate Crisis: Past and Present Injustices in a Legal Context Patience Mukuyu and Mary Galvin Activist Citizen Science: Building Water Justice in South Africa Ferrial Adam Part IV: Collective Resilience for Climate Justice Conflicting Perspectives in the Global South Just Transition Movement: A Case Study of Mpumalanga Coal Region in South Africa Andries Motau Saving Our "Common Home:" A critical Analysis of the "For Our Common Home" Campaign in AlbertaChrislain Eric Kenfack Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane Youth Climate Activism: Mobilizing for a Common Future Patricia Figueiredo Walker Index

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Book SynopsisEscalating global warming, driven by CO2 emissions from industry and fossil fuels, poses a critical challenge. Fulfilling the Paris Agreement and UN's Sustainable Development Goals necessitates reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gases like methane. Despite technological advancements, achieving sustainable carbon capture remains intricate. Recent progress in carbon capture technology motivates this book, offering ecological and financial potential. It bridges innovative materials and advanced technologies, disseminating breakthroughs including hydrogen and biofuel applications. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions yield profound consequences, reshaping landscapes and prompting global actions like the Kyoto Treaty. The book underscores quantifying and reducing energy and greenhouse gas emissions, reinforced by progressive strides. Amid urgency, fragmented guidance on personal carbon footprints leads to disarray. The book aims to provide clarity, particularly aiding students addressing the menace of CO2 emissions imperiling essential natural resources. It offers a valuable resource for studying climate change and pursuing sustainable solutions.

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Book SynopsisClimate Change Mitigation: Indian Perspective addresses the issues of climate change mitigation. Climate change is opulent; assuming and conceding that climate change mitigation is only remedy available against this anthropogenic problem. UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, 2015 have made a vigorous attempt to have a direct and concerted action of the World community to mitigate climate change. India being a concerned state and a champion of developing nations have initiated actions with regard to mitigation of climate change and sustainable environment without losing sights of its developmental goals and energy needs. The authors in this work have undertaken to examine & investigate the legal issues of climate change mitigation with special reference to Indian perspective to suggest for a better & holistic climate change mitigation without compromising development. The book concentrate on post Paris scenario relating to climate change mitigation. The work extensively discusses the Indian initiatives relating to climate change mitigation, decarbonization and zero carbon emission. The work lucidly explains the initiatives and paves ways for other nations to follow the formula, as India is the largest populous country being the biggest anthropogenic polluter and at the same time the worst victim of climate change.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Climate Change Mitigation Chapter 2 Climate Change and Its Impact: Meaning and Concepts Chapter 3 The Climate Change Mitigation: The Legal Framework Chapter 4 Climate Change Mitigation: International Legal Order Chapter 5 Climate Change Mitigation: Indian Legal Order Chapter 6 Climate Change Mitigation and Paris Agreement, 2015: Indian Initiatives Chapter 7 Climate Change Mitigation: Prospects

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Book SynopsisCollective Climate Action and Networked Climate Governance is a comprehensive book that delves into the urgent challenge of combating climate change. With the world witnessing unprecedented weather events, rising sea levels, and the rapid melting of ice caps, the book underscores the immediate and collective responsibility to protect our planet. This book navigates the multifaceted landscape of climate governance, addressing historical development, the role of non-state actors, international climate agreements, and the potential of technological innovation. The book emphasizes the interconnectedness of our global community and explores how collaborative efforts and networked governance can drive effective climate action. It provides a historical context, tracing the origins of the climate change debate and the evolution of environmental policy responses. By doing so, it highlights the limitations of traditional policy-making and advocates for innovative governance structures and cross-sector collaborations. In today's globalized world, the book analyzes the complex web of climate governance, showcasing the roles played by states, transnational organizations, cities, and businesses. It underscores the power of synergistic partnerships and the importance of integrating mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage management dimensions. Looking to the future, the book outlines emerging trends, including the potential of digital technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence, circular economy models, and decentralized renewable energy systems. It encourages readers to actively shape the trajectory of climate governance. Designed for a wide audience, from students to policymakers and the general public, Collective Climate Action and Networked Climate Governance equips readers with knowledge and tools to drive transformative change. It emphasizes the necessity of collective action and innovative governance to address climate change and build resilient societies in the face of this critical global challenge.Table of Contents Chapter 1 International Agreements on Climate Change Chapter 2 Local and Regional Climate Action Chapter 3 Mobilization of Civil Society and Youth Climate Activism Chapter 4 Networked Climate Governance Chapter 5 Carbon Markets and Emissions Trading Chapter 6 Elements of Systemic Change in Climate Action Chapter 7 Equity and Justice in Climate Action and Governance Chapter 8 Intersectionality in Climate Change Action and Networked Governance

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Book SynopsisCapitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Volume three in the Democratic Marxism series, The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment. This volume builds on the class-struggle focus of Volume 2 by placing ecological issues at the center of democratic Marxism. Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, ecosocialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.Trade Review‘This volume reminds us that fossil fuel corporations, petro states and ruling elites are the key forces deepening the climate crisis. Hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have once again demonstrated the ways that extreme weather events disproportionately impact working people, the poor and Black lives. The wealthy, meanwhile, take cover in their wine cellars on private islands. Only systemic change, led from below, holds out the hope for a safe and sturdy future. This volume features some of the best thinking we have from the climate justice forces who are already mapping the way to that next world.’ — Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. ‘This volume convincingly explains how capitalism has caused the climate crisis and why it cannot solve the crisis. Its perspectives take us beyond fatalism and provide a way forward for a thorough-going just transition anchored in people driven systemic transformation. Its democratic eco-socialist vision is rational, absolutely necessary and urgent as a basis to sustain life.’ — Mazibuko Jara activist and Director of Ntinga Ntaba kaNdoda. ‘South Africa’s National Development Plan supports resource nationalism, particularly more coal mines. Together with our carbon intensive economy, addiction to fossil fuels and now the push for an expensive nuclear deal we are heading down the wrong path. Our drought is a window into the future. This volume provides systemic alternatives for a feminist, climate justice and radical non-racial future for present and future generations. It should be read by all concerned about a climate driven world.’ — Makoma Lekalakala, Climate Justice Activist and Director of Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg.Table of Contents Tables, figures and box Acknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations 1 The Climate Crisis and Systemic Alternatives PART ONE :THE CLIMATE CRISIS AS CAPITALIST CRISIS 2 The Limits of Capitalist Solutions to the Climate Crisis 3 The Anthropocene and Imperial Ecocide: Prospects for Just Transitions PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN THE WORLD 4 The Employment Crisis, Just Transition and the Universal Basic Income Grant 5 The Rights of Mother Earth 6 Buen Vivir: An Alternative Perspective from the Peoples of the Global South 7 Challenging the Growth Paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the Pursuit of ‘Happiness’ 8 Ubuntu and the Struggle for an African Eco-socialist Alternative 9 The Climate Crisis and the Struggle for African Food Sovereignty PART THREE: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA 10 The Climate Crisis and a ‘Just Transition’ in South Africa: An Eco-Feminist-Socialist Perspective 11 Energy, Labour, and Democracy in South Africa 12 Capital, Climate and the Politics of Nuclear Procurement in South Africa 13 Climate Jobs at Two Minutes to Midnight 14 Deepening the Just Transition Through Food Sovereignty and the Solidarity Economy 15 Eco-Capitalist Crises in the ‘Blue Economy’: Operation Phakisa’s Small, Slow Failures CONCLUSION Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis* Provides specific examples of germplasm research related to climate change threats * Edited by internationally renowned experts in the field * The final chapter of the book draws a synthesis of the many issues raised within the bookTable of Contentsa: Preface 1: Food Security, Climate Change and Genetic Resources 2: Genetic Resources and Conservation Challenges under the Threat of Climate Change 3: Climate Projections 4: Effects of Climate Change on Potential Food Production and Risk of Hunger 5: Regional Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and the Role of Adaptation 6: International Mechanisms for Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources 7: Crop Wild Relatives and Climate Change 8: Climate Change and On-farm Conservation of Crop Landraces in Centres of Diversity 9: Germplasm Databases and Informatics 10: Exploring ‘Omics’ of Genetic Resources to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change 11: Harnessing Meiotic Recombination for Improved Crop Varieties 12: High Temperature Stress 13: Drought 14: Salinity 15: Response to Flooding: Submergence Tolerance in Rice 16: Effects of Climate Change on Plant–Insect Interactions and Prospects for Resistance Breeding Using Genetic Resources"

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services provided to society. These systems are either based on crop or livestock production, or on combinations of the two, with characteristics that differ between regions and between levels of management intensity. In turn, they also differ in their sensitivity to projected future changes in climate, and improvements to increase climate-resilience need to be tailored to the specific needs of each system. The book will bring together a series of chapters that provide scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different important types of crop and livestock systems, and a discussion of options for adaptive and mitigative management.Table of Contentsa: Introduction 1: Climate projections for 2050 2: Rainfed Intensive Crop Systems 3: Climate Sensitivity of Intensive Rice-Wheat Systems in Tropical Asia: Focus on the Indo-Gangetic Plains 4: Climate Change Challenges for Low Input Cropping and Grazing Systems – Australia 5: Diversity in Organic and Agroecological Farming Systems for Mitigation of Climate Change Impact, with Examples from Latin America 6: UK Fruit and Vegetable Production – Impacts of Climate Change and Opportunities for Adaptation 7: Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows 8: Climate Change and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate-Humid Regions of North and South America: Mitigation and Adaptation 9: Land Managed for Multiple Services 10: Adaptation of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Asia 11: Enhancing Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems 12: Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems: Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World 13: The Role of Modelling in Adapting and Building the Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems 14: Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change 15: Channelling the Future? The Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Climate Adaptation 16: Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: New Approaches to Knowledge and Learning 17: What are the Factors that Dictate the Choice of Coping Strategies for Extreme Climate Events? The Case of Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

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