{"product_id":"climate-obstruction-9781032019475","title":"Climate Obstruction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eClimate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet\u003c\/i\u003e, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhà bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey do so by examining the variety of ways in which meaningful climate action has been obstructed. This ranges from denial of the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change and its policy consequences, to (seemingly sincere) acknowledgement of scientific evidence while nevertheless delaying meaningful climate action. The authors also consider all those actions by which often well-meaning individuals and collectives (unintendedly) hamper climate action. In doing so, this book maps out arguments and strategies that have been used to counter environmental protection and regulation since the 1960s by, first and foremost, corporations supported by conservative actors, but also far-right ones as well as ordinary citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely and accessible book provides tools and lessons to understand, identify and call out such arguments and strategies, and points to actions and systemic and cultural changes needed to avert or at least mitigate the climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Efforts to obstruct climate action are a major factor in delaying meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This new book captures the latest peer reviewed literature and weaves an entertaining, easy to read and chilling narrative about how a number of concentrated efforts by vested economic and ideological interests have successfully worked to imperil the planet. Read this book carefully when you develop new measures to advance climate action.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert J. Brulle, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis an authorative introduction laying out the key definitions and components of climate obstruction. To a lay reader and an audience familiar with the topic they encapsulate a clear summary of what obstruction is usefully using a three-part typology to identify and help understand the complexity of climate obstruction and why it manifests. A fantastic text and well-needed read to help understand the history of and continuing role that climate obstruction plays in delaying the required changes to mitigate the climate crisis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth E. McKie, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe Montfort University, Leicester, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the book we've been needing: \u003ci\u003eClimate Obstruction\u003c\/i\u003e gives us big concepts to understand why we haven't acted on climate change, and to figure out how we might. Obstruction comes in different types, and overcoming each requires understanding and strategies specific to each. From a history of understanding and responses to climate science to documentation of the complex denial apparatus and contemporary obstruction to a look at the psychological side of well-meaning people getting in the way, \u003ci\u003eClimate Obstruction \u003c\/i\u003emakes a genuine, pathbreaking contribution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Timmons Roberts\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Brown University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/www.etc.se\/klimat-miljo\/utbrett-motstaand-mot-klimatomstaellning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/storaideer.podbean.com\/e\/klimatfornekarnas-handbok\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grappling with this question, \u003ci\u003eClimate Obstruction\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and sophisticated assessment of how diverse actors in the Global North intentionally and unintentionally impede appropriate climate measures of mitigation. Bringing together insights from environmental history, communication studies, psychology and sociology, the authors successfully meet their aim to provide an accessible overview that enables academics and interested readers from a wider public to explore this vibrant research field. (…) \u003ci\u003eClimate Obstruction\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening, thought-provoking contribution and a must-read for everybody who despairs of understanding why late modern societies are sliding into climate catastrophe with their eyes wide open, or – to be precise – are already in the midst of it.” https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09644016.2023.2215659\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHauke Dannemann\u003c\/b\u003e (2023) Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet, Environmental Politics, DOI: 10.1080\/09644016.2023.2215659\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of contents\u003c\/strong\u003e Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Foundations of Climate Obstruction Chapter 3: Organised Climate Obstruction Chapter 4: The Far Right and Climate Obstruction Chapter 5: The Public and Climate Obstruction Chapter 6: Conclusion Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018796204375,"sku":"9781032019475","price":20.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032019475.jpg?v=1750778173","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/climate-obstruction-9781032019475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}