Climate change Books

Book SynopsisThis book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi.  This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities.Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book provides an overview of this approach, including intellectual backgrounds and foundational concepts, along with a variety of empirical case studies that examine environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and other parts of Asia. It also includes critical reflections on the approach in light of contemporary sustainability challenges. The empirical topics covered in the book include local community responses to development projects, resource governance, disaster response andTable of Contents1. Introduction Daisaku Yamamoto2. Theorizing Everyday Life: The Life-Environmentalist Way Daisaku YamamotoPart I: Developmental Impulse and Everyday-Life Organizations3. Local Rules: Sustaining Local Everyday Life with Aqua-Tourism Takehito Noda4. Coexistence without Consensus: The Role of a Life Organization in Mediating between Fishermen and Surfers in a Coastal Community Shusuke Murata5. When Civil Society Falls Short: Rural Community Response to a Resort Development Project Daisaku Yamamoto and Yumiko YamamotoPart II: Governing Everyday-Life Spaces6. From Dichotomous Interpretations to Spectrum Thinking: Formation of a Community Organization in a Nuclear Host Locality Atsushi Yamamuro 7. “Public” (gong) as Village Norm: Urbanization and Community Response in China Meifang Yan 8. Multilayered Commons Space: Dry Riverbed Use in a Local Community in Ibaraki, Japan Takaaki IsogawaPart III: Living with Disasters9. Why Do Victims of Tsunami Return to the Coast? Kyoko Ueda and Hiroyuki Torigoe10. The Roots of Resilience: Forest Commons and the Cultivation and Disappearance of Livelihood Security in a Nuclear Disaster-Afflicted CommunityHiroyuki Kaneko11. Apparitions and the Recovery of Livelihoods after the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami DisasterKiyoshi KanebishiPart IV: Historic Environment and Urban Communities12. Living Traditional Culture: Gujo Dance in Hachiman Town, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, JapanShigekazu Adachi13. Embracing the Enemy’s Legacy: Historical Environmental Preservation in Daegu, South KoreaRie Matsui14. Boxing Camp as a Community School: Local Boxers in Metro Manila, PhilippinesTomonori IshiokaPart V: Critical Reflections and Prospects15. Empirically Speaking: Life-Environmentalism, Environmental Justice and Feminist Political EcologyDaisaku Yamamoto, Sophia Ferrero, and Keegan Kessler16. Life-Environmentalism, Critiques, and Prospects: Focusing on the Experientialist ApproachYasushi Arakawa17. The Future of Life-Environmentalism: A Sympathetic CritiqueMasaharu MatsumuraPart VI: Translated Excerpts from Sociological Theory of Environmental Problems (1989)18. Original Introduction of Life-Environmentalism (1989)Hiroyuki Torigoe

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development. It provides a thorough overview of both fundamental and new directions of knowledge and policy directions in this less debated area within environmental social work. The chapters of this book offer both global and cross-country perspectives via case studies from India, Nepal, Ukraine, South Africa, and the USA, providing greater understanding, evidence, and strategies to achieve the resilience of vulnerable communities based on climate justice principles. It will be required reading for all scholars, students, and social work professionals as well as those working in sustainability and community development.Trade ReviewIn a world that is still structured by coloniality, climate change looms large as a threat to individuals, families and communities and a force that portends even greater global inequality. Famines, armed conflict, immigration and forced migration are but a few of the deadly consequences spawned by climate change. "Social Work and Climate Justice: International perspectives" is a timely and important book, not only because it covers these topics, but it refreshingly includes many voices of scholars from the global majority who are from countries most affected by climate change, rather than solely relying on Western "experts." Joshua Miller, Ph.D., Professor, Smith College School of Social Work. Author of Psychosocial capacity building in response to disasters and co-author of Racism in the United States: Implications for the helping professions (3 rd .ed.) Social Work and Climate Justice: International Perspectives is a timely response to the issues related to and with climate change. A masterpiece volume, enriched by renowned contributors from different locales, covers current themes of everyone’s concerns like climate change, environmental justice, sustainable development, social change, social work education, etc. The book presents a logical and critical inquiry with a glocal perspective and offers an understanding for everyone interested in the theme. The editors are known for their candid and honest writing on Environment, Climate change, and Social Policy dimensions. I enthusiastically recommend the book not only to professional social workers but to all those who are concerned with the future of society. Sanjai Bhatt (Ph.D.), Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, India. Former President, National Association of Professional Social Workers in India (NAPSWI) and immediate past President (South Asia), International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW). This is a topical book that comes at the right time when the United Nations are urging all stakeholders from the global society to accelerate their efforts towards combating climate crisis. Climate crisis is causing biodiversity loss and destruction of the Earth system putting life on the planet at risk. It is affecting all beings and the planet, but impacting to a greater extent the poor, marginalized and disfranchised people and communities. Given that justice is an important pillar of social work, climate justice is de-facto a vital subject area within the discipline. This book offers a wide range of contributions on climate justice from different parts of the world. The chapters consist of theoretical and conceptual discussions, case studies, and policy-oriented viewpoints which make distinguished contributions to social work knowledge development. It is a commendable work and an excellent book for social work education, practice, and research in all parts of the work. Komalsingh Rambaree (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Social Work, Department of Social Work and Psychology, University of Gävle, Sweden. Table of Contents1.Social Work and Climate Justice: Past, Present, and the Way Forward. 2.Human Behavior in the Natural Environment: Embracing an Ecocentric Paradigm. 3.Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Sustainable Development in Social Work. 4.Swedish Eco-Social Interventions for Climate Justice and Social Justice: Examples from the Global North. 5.Climate Crisis and Forced Migration: A Global Social Work Response for Migrants on the Move. 6.Floods in Ukrainian Carpathians: Lessons for Social Work Practice and Education. 7.Climate Justice and Toxic Environments in Latin America: Role for Environmental Social Work. 8.Indian Social Work Education and Climate Change: Gaps, Solutions, and Alternative Possibilities. 9.Green Social Work for Climate Change: Curriculum Innovations for a Post-Apartheid South Africa. 10.Responding to Environmental Disasters in India and Nepal: Insights from Green Social Work.

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This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on feminist, more-than-human and affect theories to argue that people in high-carbon societies need to learn to live-with' climate change: to appreciate that human lives are interconnected with the climate, and to cultivate the emotional capacities needed to respond to the climate crisis. Learning to Live with Climate Change explores the cultural, interpersonal and sociological dimensions of ecological distress. The book engages with Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer' of bushfires and smoke, undergraduate students' experiences of climate change, and contemporary activist movements such as the youth strikes for climate. Verlie outlines how we can collectively attune to, live with, and respond to the unsettling realities of cli

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together 12 chapters featuring the work of over 30 authors from around the globe.The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures. The 12 chapters focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, demonstrating both individual and collective experiences of climate change and struggles for achieving climate justice from the Majority World. This includes activism, resistance, and social movement organizing in India and Brazil; lived experiences and understandings of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa; consequences of and resTrade Review“An important book on climate justice where a majority of the world lives. It brings vital insights often lost in doomsday tales on climate change – on how people find ways to support each other in times of climate crisis, as in Bangladesh; digital advocacy of social movements in Brazil that shows us how to hold institutions accountable for disasters and how one may grieve, organize and resist in times of crisis. Across the world, these strategies are just as crucial in India where ‘climate friendly projects’ on the age-old-trope of ‘empty wasteland’ continue to threaten the lives of local populations.”Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor in the Division of Rural Development, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden“A wonderfully illuminating collection that diagnoses the structural drivers of climate injustice – by authors mostly from/of the Majority World. The book intricately weaves together diverse voices, identities, and sites of knowledge production to document the profound consequences of climate change on peoples, cultures, and communities. It asks us to confront the lived realities of neoliberal development, socioeconomic inequalities, and the ongoing trauma of colonization. The book offers an important advancement in our collective effort to decolonize climate justice research and to elevate the contestations, movements, and narratives from communities living on the frontlines of climate change.”Eric Chu, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA“Climate Justice in the Majority World opens new ground in the growing, and increasingly urgent literature on climate justice. Indeed, we cannot truly know what climate justice means without hearing from authors and places such as those represented, for the first time at such a broad scope, in this volume.”Brandon Barclay Derman, Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, University of Illinois Springfield, USA. Author of Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection“Climate Justice in the Majority World comprises an eclectic collection of chapters that foreground scholarship from the Majority World. This volume challenges the perceived neutrality of climate change and disaster events, and analyses them through intersections with (neo)colonial extractivist models, neo-liberal development policies, institutional structures, social norms and social identities. It emphasizes the often muted voices in the struggle for climate justice through a depiction of the so-called alternate knowledge frames and innovative movements of resistance and struggles from the Majority World. This volume is an essential read for academics, students, policy makers and practitioners committed to decolonizing climate change and climate justice scholarship.”Saleemul Huq, OBE, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and Professor, Independent University, Bangladesh“Climate Justice in the Majority World calls out the continuity of the colonial legacy in defining climate injustice in the majority world. The book builds on an interesting set of case studies with an intersectional perspective, representing multiple voices in the discourse - social movement organisers, climate activists, vulnerable communities, among others. The book provides a compelling call for recognition of diverse knowledge frames in the Majority World that are often sidelined in the conversations around transitions to sustainable futures."John Paul Jose, Youth Environment and Climate Activist, India“Reading this book illuminated my understanding of climate justice in a fresh, new way. I found myself agreeing loudly to statements that resonated deeply as I read Climate Justice in the Majority World. It is my hope that this knowledge will challenge readers into acting better for climate justice.”Susan Nanduddu, Executive Director, African Centre for Trade and Development, Uganda“Climate Justice in the Majority World is an important read for anyone seeking to better understand climate change as a social and political issue. By putting inequalities and injustices at the center of the analysis, it offers a powerful critique of the conviction that “we’re all in this together”.”Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (Cider), Universidad de los Andes, Colombia"A must read book for those interested in climate justice and decolonising climate change. This book presents stories from various places all over the globe, diverse topics in climate change and is written by people of various backgrounds, which provides different points of view. It also highlights important elements in knowledge production processes that perpetuate the gap between the Minority and Majority World. I found myself saying out-loud 'yes, yes, that's the problem, tell me more!'"Desy Ayu Pirmasari, Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK“Climate Justice in the Majority World puts people at the centre of the climate justice debate. Without explicitly claiming so, it illustrates what peoples’ science perspective on climate change looks like. It unsettles the narratives of equity coming out from the power structures embedded in the Assessment Reports and Gap Reports, and alerts us that the discourse on climate justice must go beyond the macro scientific and economic facts of historical responsibility. The world needs to understand the microcosm of non-linear relationships between scientific facts and social values of communities, and that economic calculations and political institutions must be adjunct to these relationships, not the other way round.”Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Senior Fellow, TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute, India“This is a highly timely volume that takes a valuable step towards a greater understanding of the inequalities inherent in the climate crisis. Bringing together a range of important perspectives, this edited collection is a call to address the need for epistemic justice in the climate justice literature, and itself adds knowledge that is of use to a range of audiences - academic, policy, and practice-based - and a significant addition to the literature on climate justice.”Ali Watson, OBE, Managing Director, Third Generation Project and Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Climate Justice beyond the Minority World – Towards Decolonial KnowledgesKavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz, and Neil J. W. Crawford1. Southern Climate Justice Activism in the Context of an Energy Transition: Forest Rights over Coal in Mahan, Central IndiaRuchira Talukdar and Priya Pillai2. Extreme Climatic Events and Climate Change Policies:A Call for Climate Justice Action in MozambiqueJosé Maria do Rosário Chilaúle Langa, Natacha Bruna, Boaventura Monjane, Giverage do Amaral, Elton Augusto da Amélia Fé, Bento Paulo Rafael, Patricia Figueiredo Walker, and Patricia E. Perkins3. The Intersection of Climate Justice and Agroecology in Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria: Voices from the GroundThelma I. Vélez4. ‘I was poor before, but Cyclone Amphan left me destitute’: Disaster Displacement and Support in BangladeshNeil J. W. Crawford, Siddiqur Rahman, Tanzina Nazia, Sennan David Mattar, and Ukegbu Uwa Kalu5. The Green Climate Fund as an Elaborate Scheme of Generating Social HarmsJessica Omukuti and Aidan O’Sullivan6. Climate Justice in Latin America: Mapping the Key Emerging DebatesLira Luz Benites Lazaro, Zenaida Luisa Lauda-Rodriguez, Susanne Börner, Andrea Lampis, and Leandro Luiz Giatti7. Socioecological Conflicts and Resistances: The Platformization of Climate Justice Activism in BrazilCaio Penko Teixeira8. Resisting Dispossession and Destruction: Climate (In)justice and Wind Extraction Frontier in the Postcolonial Indian StateDavid Singh9. The Marginality of the Plainland Indigenous Communities in Climate Change Plans and Finance in BangladeshSiddiqur Rahman and A. K. M. Mamunur Rashid10. Ethical Dimensions of Climate and Environmental Issues in Pakistani MediaShafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Sadia Jamil, and Bushra Hameedur Rahman11. Socioecological Entanglements, Invasive Ecology, and Climate Injustice: A Story of Cape Town, South AfricaGrace D. O’Donovan12. Resisting Narratives of Future Foreclosure: Rethinking Adaptation and Resilience in Favour of Climate Justice in the MaldivesAfrica Bauzà Garcia-ArcicollarConclusion: Towards Justice in Climate Justice Research – Feedback from Chapter ContributorsMichael Mikulewicz, Kavya Michael, and Neil J. W. 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Book SynopsisWe think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change.The chapters highlight different aspects of vulnerability and disaster risk creation, placing the stress rightly on what causes disasters and explaining the politics of how they are created through a combination of human interference with natural processes, the social production of vulnerability, and the neglect of response capacities. Importantly, too, the book provides a platform for many of those most prominently involved in launching disaster studies as a social discipline to reflect on developments over the past 50 years and to comment on current trends.The interdisciplinary and historical perspective that this book provides will appeal to scholars and prTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of Contributors Introduction: Why vulnerability still matters. Dorothea Hilhorst and Greg Bankoff Part I Why Vulnerability Still Matters Remaking the world in our own image: Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation as historical discourses. Greg Bankoff Between precarity and the security state: A post-vulnerability view. Kenneth Hewitt Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability. Sarah Bradshaw, Brian Linneker, and Lisa Overton What must be done to rescue the concept of vulnerability? Terry Cannon Part II Vulnerability, Conflict, and State-society Relations Disaster studies and its discontents: The postcolonial state in hazard and risk creation. Ayesha Siddiqi Humanitarianism: Navigating between resilience and vulnerability. Dorothea Hilhorst Resilience, food security, and the abandonment of crisis-affected populations. Susanne Jaspars Vulnerability and resilience in a complex and chaotic context: Evidence from Mozambique. Luís Artur Part III Disaster Risk Creation Power writ small and large: How disaster cannot be understood without reference to pushing, pulling, coercing, and seducing. Ben Wisner. Disaster risk creation: The new vulnerability. Thea Dickinson and Ian Burton Vulnerable Anthropocenes?: Towards an integrated approach. Kasia Mika and Ilan Kelman. ‘The hottest summer ever!’: Exploring vulnerability to climate change among grain producers in Eastern Norway. Bjørnar Sæther and Karen O'Brien Index

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Book SynopsisUsing extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas.This book describes how to use a public health approach to build universal capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience by engaging community members in building robust social support networks, making a just transition by regenerating local physical/built, economic, and ecological systems, learning how trauma and toxic stress can affect their body, mind, and emotions as well as age and culturally tailored mental wellness and resilience skills, and organizing group and community-minded events that help residents heal their traumas. These actions build community cohesion and efficacy as residents also engage in solutions to the climate emergTrade Review"The health of our planet is inherently connected to our well-being. Preventing climate trauma and supporting holistic healing and resilience in the ways that our diverse communities interact with the stresses of climate change is quickly becoming one of the biggest challenges of our generation. Bob Doppelt’s new book offers an essential blueprint towards building a healthier future in the places where we live." Antonis Kousoulis, director for England and Wales, Mental Health Foundation, UK"The world is beginning to experience an epidemic of climate change-related mental and emotional distress that, regrettably, is likely to become a pandemic. Developing community-based approaches to promoting mental and emotional resilience in the face of climate change is one of humanity’s most pressing imperatives. In this book, one of the world’s leading experts, Bob Doppelt, shares his deep insights into how we rise to this challenge." Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD, Distinguished University Professor and director of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication"I strongly encourage everyone to read this wonderful book because it emphasizes the importance and the magic of community work. It is about time we evolve from individualistic models of mental health care that focus on what is wrong with a person. The teachings this book provides will help us, our loved ones, and our communities face the climate change mental health crises successfully in a just and equitable way." Carissa Cabán-Alemán, MD, associate professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, and member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance "This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Frankly setting out the frightening and challenging effects of climate change, Bob Doppelt's book also gives us hope that by coming together as communities, we can help ourselves mitigate some of the worst impacts on our own lives and the lives of our families and our neighbours. This is an essential read for policy makers, practitioners, and community organisations." Fiona Garven, director of the Scottish Community Development Centre, Glasgow, Scotland"The obvious consequences of climate change—extreme weather events, droughts, floods—sit among the clearer results of manmade global warming. This important new book from Bob Doppelt helps us mitigate the often invisible outcomes of global warming, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and trauma. Drawing on psychology, spirituality, and bottom up, community-based resilience practices, this monograph can help us build the capacity to manage mental wellness, recover from current and forthcoming shocks, and ensure equitable outcomes." Daniel P. Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University, and author of Building Resilience and Black Wave"Bob Doppelt is a recognized international leader on the human impact of climate change. His knowledge and wisdom illuminates Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas. This is a must read for anyone interested in conceptualizing new systems of support for our worldwide community." Elaine Miller-Karas, cofounder of The Trauma Resource Institute"Ultimately, the responsibility for preventing and healing climate trauma falls to family, friends, and neighbours, the three supportive social units of our lives. As a municipality we are making way for this prevention and healing by resourcing and organizing the irreplaceable capacity of neighbourhoods to foster mental wellness and resilience. This new book by Bob Doppelt will serve us well as in this regard." Howard Lawrence, Abundant Community Edmonton coordinator, Neighbourhoods Services, City of Edmonton, Canada"In this book Bob Doppelt presents a compelling argument that damage to person's mental health and overall well-being is occurring in reaction to the ever-increasing climatic disasters and that we have well-understood approaches for building population level resilience to mitigate these effects. It is critical that we implement these science-based approaches to increase our communities’ ability to more healthfully react to the inevitable increase in climate trauma. Bob provides the call to action." David Shern, PhD, senior associate in the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and vice chair of the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice"Bob Doppelt's new book offers high-impact recommendations on how to bring community resilience to the forefront of the climate change crisis. Bob excels at describing the impact a community-based approach has on cultivating the power of the collective spirit in addressing the health of our communities. Read it now and put it into action!" Theresa Barila, founder and board president emeritus of the Community Resilience Initiative"Bob Doppelt is a leader in the movement to build effective community responses to climate change and prevent its most severe mental health impacts. This book contains solid information and insights that can be readily applied by community leaders, practitioners, and policymakers." Howard Kurtzman, PhD, former senior science advisor (retired) to the American Psychological Association"Bob Doppelt is one of my heroes: a man who was far out ahead of the curve anticipating the psychological and social consequences of climate change and climate trauma. Read his new book because you and your loved ones are going to need the information that is in it." Sandra L. Bloom, MD, associate professor of health management and policy, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University; cofounder of the Sanctuary Model and founder of Creating Presence"Bob Doppelt’s book sets out principles for challenging our growing global climate emergency. We can’t address a crisis of this magnitude with the same methodologies we’ve been using—we need to rescue those drowning AND address why they’re drowning in the first place. As Bob notes, this means focusing on community-level strategies that start with healing and foster resilience in our systems, communities, neighborhoods, and families." Ruben Cantu, associate program director for community trauma, mental health, and violence prevention, Prevention Institute"We are at a crossroads in our country in terms of how we understand and respond to mental health. At a time when the eco-anxiety of young people is at an all time high, we need concrete, research-based strategies to support them in navigating in a rapidly changing world. Bob's book lays out a clear framework on how to do it and should be required reading for anyone working on adaptation and mitigation strategies for our climate." Lil Milagro Henriquez, executive director and founder, Mycelium Youth Network"If you are in the fight against climate change, it can actually be easier to face what is happening and the damage that is surely coming. But for most people, that is not the case, and a new type of community action is needed. A key chapter in this important book tells us to ‘begin building community capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience,’ and that about says it all. The book describes how to do that. It is needed today and will be even more so in the years to come." James Gustave Speth, former dean, Yale School of the Environment"As much as I wish we didn’t need this book, at this point I am not sure we can live without it. A practical guide to understanding what we must do to prepare ourselves for the reality of the climate crisis, Bob's book outlines concrete, accessible strategies we can implement now, to build upon the incredible resilience that is in all of us, individually and even more so, collectively. I am beyond grateful for this engaging, thought-provoking, well-researched, powerful resource." Ann DuPre Rogers, LCSW, executive director, Resources for Resilience™, coauthor, Reconnect for Resilience™ "Bob Doppelt's new book weaves together intersections of prevention science and environmental science to elevate a self-healing journey where social connection is key, raising hope comes with concrete action steps, and resilience helps us move forward with increased community-wide wellness to mitigate the impacts of toxic stressors and traumas we increasingly face as humanity, including harsh environmental and climate events. This book is hope raising...and we need it." Kristi Slette, executive director, Whatcom Family and Community Network"Bob Doppelt has surfaced a critical problem that is grossly under addressed by climate solutions. He listened to the voice of the communities and the traditions of our ancestors that have taken us through the storms of the past and identified that it is only through strong community bonds and caring relationships and systems that we can weather present and future climate catastrophes." Jacqui Patterson, founder and executive director, The Chisholm Legacy Project "To build transformational resilience and hope amidst a global cataclysm, traditional diagnostic constructs and individual-based mental health treatments will not suffice. A community/population-based strategy is necessary, one with a focus on prevention. Bob Doppelt’s insightful approach outlines the complex dilemma of climate change and mental health and provides a pragmatic template for guiding communities toward wellness." Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences"In this sobering and insightful book, Bob Doppelt provides us with an immersion in the facts of our climate challenges and then the community-based ways we can rise to this moment in our collective human history to make the necessary changes in how we live while building our relationships with each other and with nature. The power of this book rests in its emotional intensity, bringing us from the realization of our fear and loss, to the empowerment and hope of potential growth." Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of IntraConnected: MWe (Me plus We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging; executive director, Mindsight Institute; clinical professor, UCLA School of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction 1Part I A Public Health Approach is Required to Build Population-Level Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience for the Long Climate Emergency 1 Climate Overshoot “101”2 The Causes and Consequences of Individual, Community, and Societal Traumas 3 Elements of a Public Health Approach to Enhancing Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience for the Long Climate Emergency Part II Organizing and Operating Community-Based Initiatives that Build Universal Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience 4 Get Organized 5 Begin Building Community Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience 6 Establish RCC Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans Part III The Five Foundational Areas RCCs Must Emphasize to Enhance Universal Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience for the Long Climate Emergency 7 Build Social Connections across Boundaries in the Community 8 Ensure a Just Transition by Creating Healthy, Safe, Just, and Equitable Climate-Resilient Local Physical/Built, Economic, and Ecological Conditions 9 Cultivate Universal Literacy about Mental Wellness and Resilience 10 Foster Engagement in Specific Practices that Support Mental Wellness and Resilience 11 Establish Ongoing Opportunities for Residents to Heal Their Distresses and Traumas 12 Continually Track Progress, Learn, Improve, and Plan for the Long Term Conclusion: The Need for a Global Movement to Enhance Universal Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience for the Civilization-Altering Climate Emergency

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Book SynopsisThis book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world and the planetary beyond, sifting through temporal accounts of the Anthropocene, human beings, and climate change.The chapters in this edited volume spur conversations with different thought systems and their underlying assumptions about the composition of structures of time and contingent temporalities. The authors engage rising temperatures in the oceans and air, the consequences, intended and unintended, of investments in various forms of development, and the potential catastrophe unfolding in real time. Recent temporal strategies such as mitigation and adaptation to the climate crisis are challenged as they further compound and commodify the inquiry, the understanding and responses to environmental degradationsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence PART I: The question of radical existence 1. Humility in the Anthropocene 2. Submerged perspectives: the arts of land and water defense 3. Beyond the secular Anthropocene: Locke’s self-owning body, protestant translations of indigenous world-making, and the settler-colonial plantation economy 4. On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary 5. Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice PART II: Profound challenges of climate change and climate science 6. Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates 7. Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’ 8. A puzzle: the environment/development constellation in Madagascar 9. Time to change? Technologies of futuring and transformative change in Nepal’s climate change policy 10. Financialization and suburbanization: the predatory hegemony of suburban-financial nexus in Istanbul 11. Producing nationalized futures of climate change and science in India 12. Connecting human and planetary health: interview with Christiana Figueres PART III: Radical existence and ecological imaginaries 13. Welcome to the Anthropocene: Gregory Bateson, disaster porn, Swamp Thing, and ‘The Green’ 14. ‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope 15. Poems 16. Poems 17. Tipping Point: Kay S. Lawrence’s exhibition on climate emergency 18. ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’: the Anthropecene and the cyclical time of human suffering 19. Conversations on education, time and the planetary

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Book SynopsisThis book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on socioecological challenges and offers innovative solutions at both a European and global level.This book critically reflects on the latest scientific knowledge regarding the increasing instability of the Earth System caused by human activities during the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration. It focuses on the global and European challenges regarding climate, resources, bio-integrity, and environment. The authors assess the obstacles to overcoming these challenges and examine the risks posed by path dependencies, lock-ins, and trade-offs between global and regional goals. They also drill down into the complexities of the European Green Deal, specifically the similarities and differences between the scientific analyses and recommendations from the European Environment Agency and the content of the Deal. Finally, the book looks at the Just Transition put forward by the European Green Deal. The authors discuss this in a contTable of ContentsList of contributorsIntroductionAnders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars Hulgaard Part I: Global ecological and socioecological challenges and UN solutions Chapter 1: Global ecological risks Anders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars HulgaardChapter 2: UN ecological risk governanceAnders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars HulgaardChapter 3: Socioecological challenges and UN policiesAnders Siig Andersen and Lars HulgaardChapter 4: Affirmative and critical perspectives on the 2030 Agenda of sustainable development and the sustainable development goalsAnders Siig Andersen and Lars HulgaardPart II: European ecological and Socioecological challenges, and EU Solutions Chapter 5: The European Green Deal and the state of the European environmentAnders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars HulgaardChapter 6: Climate Change-motivated development of the EU’s energy production and use systemsThomas Budde Christensen and Tobias Pape Thomsen Chapter 7: Resources and the circular economyThomas Budde Christensen Chapter 8: The food system and agricultureHenrik Hauggaard-Nielsen and Niels Heine KristenenChapter 9: Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to peopleThorkil Casse and Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen Chapter 10: Just Transition and the EULars Hulgaard and Anders Siig Andersen Part III: Cross-cutting issues: governance, the “Anthropocene”, and interdisciplinary researchChapter 11: Ecological and socioecological governance in the UN and the EUAnders Siig Andersen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars Hulgaard Chapter 12: Decentering humanity: The Anthropocene and the perils of AnthropocentricityAnders Siig Andersen and Lars HulgaardChapter 13: Interdisciplinary research and knowledge creation Anders Siig Andersen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen, Thomas Budde Christensen, and Lars HulgaardIndex

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Book SynopsisClimate change is modifying, in varying measure, the coastal geography of States. The phenomenon is not temporary but is expected to carry on during the 21st century and beyond. A distinctive feature of modern international law is the concept of maritime zones. Each maritime area is subject to an intricate scheme of States' rights and obligations. Coastal geography is a fundamental component of a long-standing method, developed and agreed upon between States, to establish the outward limits of these areas. A feature of this method is the baseline. In international law it is the only reference line from where the outward limits of maritime zones are measured. There are clear rules on how this is established along a coast. There is a concern amongst a number of States that rising sea water levels as a result of climate change may compel them to shift their baselines inward thus affecting the outward limits of their maritime zones. It is clear that the stabTable of ContentsAcknowledgements * Table of Cases *Table of Treaties and Legal Instruments *List of Abbreviations *List of Illustrations *Introduction *Chapter 1: The Concern *1.1 Sea Level Rise and the Impact of a Changing Baseline *1.2 Conclusion *Chapter 2: The Baseline *2.1 The Normal Baseline *2.2 Atolls and Reefs *2.3 Straight Baselines *2.4 Coastlines: Deeply Indented, Cut into or the Presence of a Fringe of Islands *2.5 Mouths of Rivers *2.6 Bays *2.7 Particular Coastal Circumstances *2.7.1 Historic Bays *2.7.2 Highly Unstable Coastlines *2.8 Low-Tide Elevations *2.9 Archipelagic States *2.9.1 Straight Archipelagic Baselines *2.10 Base Points Along Ice Formations *2.11 Conclusion *Chapter 3: Islands *3.1 The Constitutive Elements of an Island *3.2 Rocks in the Regime of Islands *3.3 The Requirements of Human Habitation or Economic Life of their Own *3.4 Submerging Islands *3.5 "New" and "Uncovered" Islands *3.6 Conclusion *Chapter 4: The Judicial Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries *4.1 The Applicable Law Governing the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries *4.2 Land - the Source of a State’s Rights over Adjacent Waters *4.3 Delimitation of Overlapping Maritime Zones *4.3.1 Base Points *4.4 Delimitation of the Territorial Sea *4.4.1 Historic Title or Special Circumstances *4.4.2 The Median Line *4.5 Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf *4.5.1 The Delimitation Methodologies and Coastal Geography *4.5.2 The Equidistance/Relevant Circumstances Method *4.5.3 Relevant Circumstances *4.5.4 The Disproportionality Test *4.6 The Angle-Bisector Method *4.7 Coastal Instability *4.8 Conclusion *Chapter 5: Stability and Clarity *5.1 Maritime Boundaries established by a Judicial Decision or an Agreement *5.2 Unilaterally Declared Maritime Boundaries *5.2.1 State Practice *5.2.2 Maritime Limits (1): Historic Title or Historic Rights *5.2.3 Maritime Limits (2): Permanence *5.4 Sea Level Rise and Maritime Delimitation by Judicial Institutions *5.5 Monitoring the Stability of Baselines and Base Points *5.6 Conclusion *Concluding Remarks *Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… *INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION DOCUMENTS *INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION REPORTS *BOOKS *PAPERS IN JOURNALS *REPORTS *THESES/RESEARCH PAPERS *NEWSPAPER ARTICLES *SPEECHES *WEBSITES *OTHER *

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Book SynopsisPromoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity''s challenges of the twenty-first century. There is enough evidence that peace, sustainability, and climate security are entangled with multiple complex interactions and cannot be dealt with in isolation and independently from the environment and the numerous systems with which they interact. Yet, the intersection of peace, sustainability, and climate security or their opposites (i.e., conflict, unsustainability, and climate vulnerability) is rarely articulated with a systemic mindset. A multi-solving nexus approach is more appropriate to capture the complexity and uncertainty of how the three sectors of peace, sustainability, and climate security play a role in community development, the nature of their causal chains, and the feedback on how community development affects the Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Peace–Sustainability–Climate Nexus 3. Changing the Narrative 4. Systems Thinking 5. Defining the PSC Nexus Landscape 6. Soft Systems Modeling Tools 7. Hard Systems Modeling Tools 8. Systems Archetypes 9. System-Based Methodology 10. Illustrative Examples–Part 1 11. Illustrative Examples–Part 2 12. Case Studies 13. Systemic Interventions 14. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisAs water''s significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate change challenges, leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus for a sustainable transition and resilient solutions. Delving into the humanitarian and development sectors across the region, the authors advocate for a transformative approach towards more innovative, integrated, and localized programming. It draws a parallel between the increasing global shift in humanitarian needs, as starkly revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing devastation wrought by climate change, particularly through water-related crises such as flooding, drought, famine, and conflict. The authors stress the urgent need for adaptive and sustainable strategies that can swiftly respond to evolving climate challenges. This book argues that there is currently a window of opportunity for

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Book SynopsisThis timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.Confronting Climate Coloniality exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through processes of neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, economic growth models, media, and education. Confronting climate coloniality entails decolonizing climate discourses and governance, challenging the dominant framings and policies, interrogating material, geopolitical, and institutional arrangements for tackling the climate crisis, and centering Global South and Indigenous knowledge, experiences, strategies, and solutions. Confronting Climate Coloniality: D

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Book SynopsisWhat are the democratic requirements for effective climate action? how can âclimate democracyâ be conceptualised?Liberal democracies emerged on the back of fossil fuels, creating what Tim Mitchell called âcarbon democracyâ. Three decades of climate policy have affirmed the controlling influence of fossil fuel interests. Runaway climate change now threatens the very foundations of social life. Today we face a very clear democratic question, of whether the fossil fuel sector has the right to determine the planetâs climate future. Achieving global energy transformation at the scope and scale needed requires a democratic transformation, to overcome the stranglehold. This book examines these requirements. It debates the political constituencies, agendas and institutions that are emerging from climate crisis, comparing evidence of emergent themes. New claims are emerging, for âgreen dealsâ, âclimate justiceâ, âenergy justiceâ, âenergy democracyâ and âde-growthâ, reflecting a new in

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Book SynopsisThis book presents valuable insights, critiques and contributions from energy researchers focused on Latin American case studies. Their work not only enriches the understanding of energy justice but also addresses a significant gap in the current academic literature.Since it was coined as an academic term more than ten years ago, energy justice has experienced accelerated growth as a relevant and widely recognised concept that allows energy researchers to engage with diverse energy issues. Nevertheless, energy justice still faces theoretical and empirical gaps, including a lack of diversity in author demographics and case studies coming from regions in the Global South. Against this backdrop, this book brings together 30 authors whose research draws from Latin American countries like Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru, as well as wider regional perspectives. The selected case studies combine lowâcarbon transitions, regulations and technologies with issues of gender, indigeneity, (neo)colonialism, autonomy, poverty and inequality. Importantly, the chapters examine how energy justice might influence existing approaches and worldviews on sustainability, which strive for just and clean future energy systems by redressing regional inequalities and tackling the global challenge of climate change. As such, Energy Justice in Latin America opens new spaces for a growing research community to redefine and jointly construct a more complete, regionally specific notion of energy justice.Highlighting the ways in which the discussion included in this book resonates with other regions in the Global South, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy justice, energy poverty, energy democracy and energy policy, as well as Latin American studies more broadly.

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Book SynopsisMiscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop, and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge. Miscanthus, also known as elephant grass, is a high yielding grass crop that grows over three metres tall, resembles bamboo and produces a crop every year without the need for replanting or fertiliser application . The rapid growth, low mineral content, and high biomass yield of Miscanthus increasingly make it a favourite choice as a biofuel, outperforming switchgrass and other alternatives. There is over 20 years of research evidence to support its promotion as a second generation biomass crop. The author reviews many field measurements of yields as well as the physiology of the crop, and why it is so productive while at the same time requiring low inputs to grow it. It also shows how as a key biofuel crop it can contribute to mitigating climate change and how uptake of the adoption of MiscanthTrade Review"The book Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production provides an accessible succinct summary of a large body of research over three decades that started in the late 80s in Denmark and Germany. Mike Jones, one of the scientists involved in the conception of several key EU projects in the 1990s, is a global authority on C4 photosynthesis in perennial grasses. He was part of the delegation in the early 2000s that helped kick-start the large public and private programmes in the US. The chapters in the book progress from the global needs for biomass, the basic biology of Miscanthus and its productive potential and environmental sustainability. Recent developments in breeding and commercial deployment are reviewed with the latest literature and draw also on his personal interactions with those in the global community performing experiments at the different scales to develop the technology pipelines. In the preface he wrote, ‘as scientists we are increasingly encouraged to engage productively with people that make policy’. The final chapter discusses the complex policy choices needed to ensure the markets are developed and concludes with future prospects for making a significant biomass contribution to greenhouse gas mitigation in a time when urgent action on climate change is imperative to avert disaster."John Clifton-Brown, Professor, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University Table of Contents1. Bioenergy and its Global Potential 2. Identifying High Yielding Biomass Crops 3. Controls of Miscanthus Productivity 4. Environmental Sustainability of Miscanthus 5. Breeding to Improve Miscanthus 6. Commercial Uses of Miscanthus Biomass 7. Policies and Markets: the Future for Miscanthus

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Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones. However, time, in both its ideational and material dimensions, has played an important role in mediating and shaping the directions, courses, and outcomes of globalization. Focusing on the intersection of time and globalization, this book aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between the (largely separated) respective literatures on each of these themes. This dialogue will be of both theoretical and empirical significance, since many urgent issues of contemporary human affairsfrom large epochal problems such as climate change, to everyday struggles with the dynamics of social accelerationinvolve a complex interplay between temporality and globalization. A critical understanding of the relationship between time and globalization will not only facilitate innovative thinking

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Book SynopsisAccess to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution. Western countries now need to transform their energy systems and move away from the single-minded pursuit of economic growth in order to reduce our carbon emissions, and to allow the environmental space for other countries to develop in a more sustainable way. Achieving this requires understanding of the dynamics of economic and industrial change with appreciation of the dependence of economies on ecological systems. Energy and Economic Growth thus examines the links between three issues: history of energy sources, technologies and uses; ecological challenges associated with the current dominant economic growth paradigm; and the future low carbon energy transition to mitigate human-induced climate change. Providing a historical understanding of the relevant connections between physical, social and economic changTable of ContentsPart I: Key issues 1. Introduction – Challenges of climate change and economic growth. 2. What is energy and why is it important for the economy?3. Assessing the role of energy in long-term industrial change. Part II: Long waves of energy-industrial change 4. Pre-industrial energy systems. 5. The first industrial revolution – water and steam power. 6. Electrification and the rise of oil. 7. Rise of the consumer society.Part III: Implications for economic development 8. Energy and economic growth – a positive feedback system. 9. Insights for a low carbon energy transformation. Part IV: Future challenges 10. Future energy pathways and issues. 11. Economic growth and beyond. 12. Can we rise to the challenge?

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental problems particularly climate change have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates is an account of the history of the welfare state in relation to environmental issues and green ideas.A Green History of the Welfare State fills this gap. How have the environmental and social policy agendas developed? To what extent have welfare systems been informed by the principles of environmental ethics and politics? How effective has the welfare state been at addressing environmental problems? How might the history of social policies be reimagined? With its lively, chronological narrative, this book provides answers to these questions. Through overviews of key periods, politicians and reforms the book weaves together a range of subjects into a new kind of historicalTable of ContentsIntroduction Made of Coal and Surrounded by Fish: 1945-51 A Final Farewell: 1951-55 An Impenetrable Fog: 1952-64 Upheavals: 1964-70 Crises of Power: 1970-74 The Party is Over: 1974-79 The Soul of a Marketplace: 1979-87 Venus in Capitalist Furs: 1987-90 The Long Shadows: 1990-97 New Dawn, New Politics, New Britain: 1997-2001 Fixing the Planet: 1997-2005 Crashing and Burning: 2005-10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century. It provides insightful analysis into variation across the continent, whilst highlighting areas of cross-learning and regional cooperation between the developed and developing countries of Asia. Prepared by a team of leading international experts, this book not only captures the East Asian domination, particularly that of China, but also highlights the growing influence of South Asia and the ASEAN. Organised into four parts, the sections include: the demand for energy in the region and its main drivers at the sector level; developments in energy supply, including fossil fuels and renewable energy sources; energy policies and issues such as sector reform and climate change; the transition to a low carbon pathway. <Table of ContentsPart 1: Energy use in Asia 1. Introduction, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 2. A review of the energy situation in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 2. Review of the overall energy situation in China, Ming Su and Songli Zhu 3. Energy poverty in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya and Debajit Palit 4. Industrial energy use in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 5. Transportation energy demand in Asia: status, trends, and drivers Govinda Timilsina and Ashish Shrestha 6. Residential energy use in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya Part 2: Energy supply in Asia 8. Oil in Asia, Tilak K. Doshi 9. Natural gas trade and markets in Asia, Ronald D. Ripple 10. The role of coal in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 11. Review of electricity supply in Asia, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 12. On-grid solar energy in Asia: status, policies, and future prospects, Tania Urmee and S. Kumar 13. Wind energy development in Asia, Christopher M. Dent 14. Hydropower in Asia, Arthur A. Williams Part 3: Energy policy issues in Asia 15. Rethinking electricity sector reform in South Asia: balancing economic and environmental objectives, Anupama Sen, Rabindra Nepal, and Tooraj Jamasb 16. Deregulation, competition, and market integration in China’s electricity sector, Yanrui Wu, Xiumei Guo, and Dora Marinova17. Energy sector reform in China since 2000 for a low-carbon energy pathway, Songli Zhu, Ming Su, and Xiang Gao 18. Energy security issues in Asia, Vlado Vivoda 19. Sustainable energy infrastructure for Asia: policy framework for responsible financing and investment, Artie W. Ng and Jatin Nathwani 20. Developing Asia’s response to climate change: reshaping energy policy to promote low carbon development, Nandakumar Janardhanan and Bijon Kumer Mitra Part 4: Energy in a carbon-constrained world 21. Interations of global climate institutions with national energy policies: an analysis of the climate policy landscape in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan, Takako Wakiyama, Ryoko Nakano, Eric Zusman, Xinling Feng, and Nandakumar Janardhanan 22. Clean energy transition for fueling economic integration in ASEAN, Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Sanjayan Velautham, Tsani Fauziah Rakhmah, Beni Suryadi 23. Importance of regional climate policy instruments towards the decarbonisation of electricity system in the Great Mekong Sub-region, Akihisa Kuriyama and Kentaro Tamura 24. Costs and benefits of biofuels in Asia, Shabbir H. Gheewala, Noah Kittner, and Xunpeng Shi 25. Financing energy access in Asia, Binu Parthan 26. Socio-technical innovation systems: a new way forward for pro-poor energy access policy and practice, David Ockwell and Rob Byrne 27. Conclusions, Subhes C. Bhattacharyya

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Book SynopsisClimate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world. Governments and businesses have been slow to act and individuals now need to take the lead. The Earth can absorb no more than 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year for every person on the planet if we are to keep temperature and rainfall change within tolerable limits. Yet from cars and holiday flights to household appliances and the food on our plates, Western consumer lifestyles leave each of us responsible for over 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year - four times what the Earth can handle. Individual action is essential if we want to avoid climate chaos. How to Live a Low-Carbon Life shows how easy it is to take responsibility, providing the first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating your CO2 emissions and reducing them to a sustainable 3 tonnes a year.Trade Review'This is the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint.' New Scientist 'Goodall's well-rounded view of the green world also encompasses the bigger-picture issues that governments and societies face. So if you're fed up with reading about all the little things you can do for the planet and fancy getting stuck into some proper green living, this is the book for you.' Your Environment (Environment Agency UK) 'Valuable ammunition for those who want to do something about global warming.' The Guardian 'Chris Goodall's thoroughly researched book sets out in detail how we can each help the planet pull back from the abyss - not through any high-powered international initiatives, but by ordinary individual actions in our daily lives. We ignore his advice at our peril.' Robert Napier, Chief Executive WWF-UK 'This is by far the best guide to the carbon implications of daily living that I've seen. Chris Goodall has both done his homework and presented it all in an accessible way. This book will give you a good understanding of what the biggest carbon issues are in your lifestyle, how the emissions arise and what you can do about them. He's transparent in his analysis and about where his data comes from, so you can make up your own mind whether you agree with him at every step.' Mike Berners-lee 'As this admirable guide demonstrates so clearly, a low-carbon lifestyle can be elegant, fun, rewarding and save us all a lot of money - as well as the planet!' Jonathon Porritt, CBE (Founder Director of Forum for the Future and author of Capitalism as if the World Matters) 'Should be snapped up by schools whose teachers are already busily outlining the dangers facing our environment...an invaluable guide to halting climate change.' Education Journal, April 2007 'This is one of the best books on its topic that has been published for some time. The details are clear, the writing is good and it speaks of the sensible and practical. t will appeal to students on a range of levels from the clarity of writing (always good to see, and rarer than we'd like) to the idea of calculations (think multi-disciplinary) and the overall idea of actually getting up and doing something. Get a copy (and make sure your library does). Better still - do something! Ecological and Environmental Education (British Ecological Society) 'Chris Goodall takes a no nonsense, financial approach to low-carbon living - what is the cheapest way to cut carbon emissions, what is practical and what is just wishful thinking? Therein lies the key difference between this book and the many published before arguing why we should reduce our carbon footprint, or advocating one solution over an other for ideological rather than economic reasons.' Peter Shield www.naturalchoices.co.uk 'This is a brilliant book. 300 odd pages bristling with facts, statistics and meticulous analysis of the make up of our average UK carbon footprint and how we can reduce it to a sustainable level. I will be using this book as a reference on a weekly if not daily basis for blogging, work and checking my own random thoughts.' Gareth Kane, Environmental Consultant 'If you�ve ever felt overwhelmed by the multiplicity of environmentally conscious choices you have to make every day, then try this book for size...For both sustainable construction students and professionals, this book is a useful read, not least because you can take time out to think about other aspects of carbon generation (food miles, for example), but also because it won�t be long before you�re faced with a client who has read it from cover to cover.' Get Sust 'This thorough and wide-ranging handbook provides all the information needed for people and families to understand their impacts on the world�s climate...[w]ritten in an optimistic tone, it shows how easy it is to take responsibility and reduce our personal carbon emissions.' CIRIA Newsletter, Mid-June Highlights, 2007 'An absolute mine of information on virtually everything to do with global warming and climate change...this is the one-stop reference for detailed information, statistics and hard facts.' Women's Environmental Network 'A must for people worried about the effects of global warming and determined to do something about it.' Food Ethics, Spring 2008, Volume 3 Issue 1 'Climate change isn't someone else's problem, we all have to play our part. It's time for us all to go on a carbon diet, and this book shows you how.' Charles Dunstone (CEO of Carphone Warehouse and a founding partner in The Climate Group's partnership to promote climate change solutions) 'An excellent, practical and reassuring guidebook to the most important issue on everybody's to-do list this year. Why not buy a few and distribute them to your friends next time they wring their hands and ask 'What can I do?'' Green WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Getting from 12 Tonnes to 3 Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per Person * The Extraordinary Cheapness of Fossil Fuels * The Scope for Government Action * The Inadequacy of Alternative Means of Reducing Emissions * No One Else Is Doing Much, So You'd Better Do Something Yourself * How Our Lives Generate Emissions and What We Can Do about It * Home Heating * Water Heating and Cooking * Lighting * Household Appliances * Car Travel * Public Transport * Air Travel * Food * Other Indirect Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions * Domestic Use of Renewable Energy * Cancelling Out Emissions * Conclusions * Afterword * Appendix: Sources of the Main Averages

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Book SynopsisAviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research experts examine how to address the problems, and what it would take to achieve genuinely sustainable aviation - looking at technological, policy and demand-management options. Without far-reaching changes the problems caused by aviation can only multiply and worsen. This work seeks to take an important step in diagnosing the problems and in pointing towards their solutions.Trade Review'Wide-ranging and thorough.' Future Survey 'A very comprehensive book which contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential information source and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, researchers, students and especially environmental and government policy-makers.' International Journal of Environmental Studies '... This is a significant and timely book that sets out the challenges presented by aviation in a comprehensive manner.' Local Transport Today 'Without far-reaching changes, the problems associated with aviation can only multiply and worsen. This book takes an important step in accurately diagnosing these problems and pointing towards their solutions.' Sustain 'This comprehensive collection contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential source of information and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, planners, and policymakers'. Book notes. Business Horizons 4 July-August 2004Table of ContentsPreface * Part 1: Trends and Issues � Introduction: Perspectives on Sustainability and Aviation * Organizational and Growth Trends in Air Transport * the Social and Economic Benefits of Aviation * Aircraft Noise, Community Relations and Stakeholder Involvement * Part 2: Mitigations and Potential Solutions - Environmental Management and the Aviation Industry * The Potential for Modal Substitution * Air Freight and Global Supply Chains: the Environmental Dimension * The Potential Offered by Aircraft and Engine Technologies * Climate Policy for Civil Aviation: Actors, Policy Instruments and the Potential for Emissions Reductions * Part 3: Multisector Commentaries -Multisector Commentaries on Sustainability and Aviation * Economic Aspects of Sustainability and UK Aviation Sustainable Aviation: Implications for Economies in Transition * Key Issues in Aviation Environmental Policy-Making * Towards Sustainable Aviation? * Aircraft Noise: The NGO Perspective * Environmental and Economic Factors in Airport Capacity * Potential Improvements to Air Traffic Management * Making Aviation Less Unsustainable: Some Pointers to the Way Ahead * Sustainable Aviation: What do you Mean? * Sustainability and Aviation: Problems and Solutions * Airlines and Sustainable Development * the Case for 'No growth' * Conclusion * Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.Table of ContentsIntroduction Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach; Part I. Historical Shifts in Climate Consciousness: 1. Seasonal processions Sarah Dimick; 2. Literal and literary atmospheres Thomas H. Ford; 3. Weathers of body and world: Reading difference in literary atmospheres before climate change Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Part II. Current Issues in Climate Change Criticism: 4. Scales: Climate versus embodiment Derek Woods; 5. Capitalist cultures: The taste of oil Elizabeth Mazzolini; 6. Animals and extinction Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; 7. Climate justice and literatures of the global south Chitra Sankaran; Part III. Ways of Telling Climate Stories: 8. Climate theatre: Enacting possible futures Theresa J. May; 9. Digital Cli-Fi: Human stories of climate in online and social media John Parham; 10. Climate on screen: From doom and disaster to ecotopian visions Alexa Weik von Mossner; Part IV. Dialogic Perspectives on Emerging Questions: Science Fiction and Future Fantasies; 11. Ice-sheet collapse and the consensus apocalypse in the science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson Gerry Canavan; 12. Solarpunk Gregory Lynall; Collective Climate Action; 13. Indigenous and black feminist knowledge-production, speculative science stories, and climate change literature Shelley Streeby; 14. More-than-human collectives in richard powers' the overstory and vandana singh's 'entanglement' Kelly Sultzbach; Love Letters to the Planet; 15. Meteorology of form Thomas Bristow; 16. Perspective-taking, empathy, and virtuality in Jorie Graham's fast Isabel Galleymore; Diverse Indigenous Voices on Climate; 17. Climate change and indigenous sovereignty in pacific islanders' writing Hsinya Huang; 18. Literary responses to indigenous climate justice and the canadian settler-state Jenny Kerber and Cheryl Lousley; Redefining 'the Real'; 19. Transtextual realism for the climatological collective Adeline Johns-Putra; 20. Critical Climate Irrealism Sam Solnick.

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Book SynopsisIn this Element, the authors develop an account of the role of behaviour change that is more political and social by bringing questions of power and social justice to the heart of their enquiry in order to appreciate how questions of responsibility and agency are unevenly distributed within and between societies. The result is a more holistic understanding of behaviour, as just one node within an ecosystem of transformation that bridges the individual and systemic. Their account is more attentive to questions of governance and the processes of collective steering necessary to facilitate large scale change across a diversity of actors, sectors and regions than the dominant emphasis on individuals and households. It is also more historical in its approach, looking critically at the relevance of historical parallels regarding large-scale behaviour change and what might be learned and applied to the contemporary context action.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Changing our ways; 2. The challenge of scaling; 3. Understanding behaviour change; 4. Leverage and tipping points; 5. Future intervention points; 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisClimate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change mitigation, adaptation and suffering the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impactTrade Review'The barriers to climate action today aren't technological. They're political. Read this book to understand how polluters have created obstacles to the task of decarbonization and how we can fight back.' Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University and author of The New Climate War'Climate change is not an environmental issue; it is a breakdown of natural systems that requires an urgent re-examination of the system that is causing it: capitalism. The time for urgent action is now - in 'the age of consequences' - and this book explains why the market lens through which we view that urgency is actually blocking action. Instead, we are seduced by “magical thinking” that tells us we can have the win-win solution, avoiding hard choices and looking for the silver bullet solutions that do not exist. Read this book for a sober and unflinching view of the political roots of the climate challenge before us and the profound need to both recognize and change our thinking.' Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan'This is a truly fascinating account of how business-as-usual has managed to continue even in the face of the greatest crisis humans have ever wandered too. It is equal parts illuminating and infuriating, and hopefully will provide activists with a new sense of where we might find purchase in the fight to make the rich and powerful face the truth of our moment.' Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon'From sophisticated political analyses to a compassionate and courageous expose of the politics of climate suffering, this beautifully written book hits the mark on the key climate questions of the day.' Kari Norgaard, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of OregonTable of ContentsPart I. The Politics of Climate Change; 1. Organising climate change; 2. The hegemony of corporate capitalism; Part II. The Politics of Climate Mitigation; 3. Fossil fuel hegemony, green business and growth; 4. Challenging fossil fuel expansion; Part III. The Politics of Climate Adaptation; 5. Climate adaptation and the maintenance of corporate hegemony; 6. Now is not the time: the social construction of adaptation; Part IV. The Politics of Climate Suffering; 7. The spectacle of suffering; 8. Solidarity and agency in climate suffering; Part V. The Politics of Climate Futures; 9. Decarbonisation, degrowth and democracy; 10. After the interregnum.

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