Constance Lever-Tracy - Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Routledge International Handbooks)

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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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

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