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As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem. The book is multidisciplinary and worldwide in scope, with contributors spanning specialisms including agro-forestry, economics, environmentalism, ethics, human geography, international relations, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theology. Their global knowledge is reflected in the content of the text, which encompasses chapters on American, European and Chinese policies, case studies of responses to disasters and of the new technological and lifestyle alternatives that are being adopted, and the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen conference alongside a preface assessing its outcomes. Starting with an initial analysis by a leading climatologist, key issues discussed in the text include recent findings of natural scientists, social causation and vulnerability, media and public recognition or scepticism, and the merits and difficulties of actions seeking to mitigate and adapt. This accessible volume utilizes a wealth of case studies, explains technical terms and minimises the use of acronyms associated with the subject, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.

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Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem.

The book is multidisciplinary and worldwide in scope, with contributors spanning specialisms including agro-forestry, economics, environmentalism, ethics, human geography, international relations, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theology. Their global knowledge is reflected in the content of the text, which encompasses chapters on American, European and Chinese policies, case studies of responses to disasters and of the new technological and lifestyle alternatives that are being adopted, and the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen conference alongside a preface assessing its outcomes. Starting with an initial analysis by a leading climatologist, key issues discussed in the text include recent findings of natural scientists, social causation and vulnerability, media and public recognition or scepticism, and the merits and difficulties of actions seeking to mitigate and adapt.

This accessible volume utilises a wealth of case studies, explains technical terms and minimises the use of acronyms associated with the subject, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.

Constance Lever-Tracy is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia. She has prior interests in industrial militancy, ethnic relations and diaspora Chinese capitalism. Her recent work includes the entry for Global Warming in the International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (2008), and initiation of a symposium on global warming and sociology in Current Sociology (2008).

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Edited by Constance Lever-Tracy

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LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Routledge handbook of climate change and society / edited by Constance Lever-Tracy.
p. cm.
1. Climatic changes. 2. Global warming. 3. Climatic changes--Social aspects. 4. Human beings--Effect of
climate on. I. Lever-Tracy, Constance. II. Title: Handbook of climate change and society.
QC903.R68 2010
304.25--dc22
2009043134

ISBN 0-203-87621-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 978-0-415-54476-4 (hbk)

ISBN 978-0-415-54478-8 (pbk)

Contents


RAYMOND CLMENON AND
MARCUS CARSON


CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY AND
BARRIE PITTOCK


BARRIE PITTOCK


IAN WELSH


CHARLES PERROW


DENNIS SORON


PHILIP LAWN


INGE RPKE


ROBIN LEICHENKO,
ADELLE THOMAS AND
MARK BARNES


RAYMOND MURPHY


MONALISA CHATTERJEE


STEVEN R. BRECHIN


MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF AND
JOE SMITH


CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY


LEE LEVETT-OLSON


RILEY E. DUNLAP AND
AARON M. MCCRIGHT


NOEL TRACY


CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY


TERRY LEAHY


STEPHEN CLARKE,
DAN GRAIVER AND
SUDIRMAN HABIBIE


LEE CLARKE


LUTGARDA L. TOLENTINO,
LEILA D. LANDICHO,
CATHERINE C. DE LUNA AND
ROWENA D. CABAHUG


DAVID OCKWELL,
SAFFRON ONEILL AND
LORRAINE WHITMARSH


KARIN BCKSTRAND


SHIUFAI WONG


MARCUS CARSON AND
MIKAEL ROMN


BO MIAO AND
GRAEME LANG


DEREK BELL


HOSSEIN ESMAEILI


RAYMOND CLMENON

Illustrations
Figures

1.1

Observed changes in global average surface temperature, global average sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover

1.2

The Trient Glacier near Forclaz in the Valais region of southern Switzerland in 2000

1.3

Flows between carbon reservoirs

1.4

Has climatic change increased the frequency of closure of the Thames Barrier?

1.5

Deaths during the heatwave in Paris (July to August 2003)

2.1

Environmentally targeted component of fiscal stimulus packages

5.1

The difference between resource throughput and resource allocation

5.2

The sustainable economic welfare generated by a growing economy

5.3

An increase in sustainable economic welfare brought about by an upward shift of the UB curve

5.4

A change in sustainable economic welfare brought about by a rightward/downward shift of the UC curve

5.5

The GPI and GDP for the USA and a range of European countries

5.6

Per capita GPI versus per capita GDP of selected Asia-Pacific countries

5.7

CO2-equivalent emissions to stabilise atmospheric concentration at 450ppm CO2-e, World (20102100)

5.8

Evolution of a sustainable global economy (20102100)

9.1

Flood-affected areas of Mumbai (July 2005)

9.2

Dimensions of changes in vulnerability

9.3

Slum household characteristics

10.1

Growing concern over environmental problems

10.2

How serious a problem is global warming?

10.3

What is the most important national problem?

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