Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis - cover image

Copyright

Steffen Böhm; Sian Sullivan

Published On

2021-09-28

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-260-7
Hardback978-1-80064-261-4
PDF978-1-80064-262-1
HTML978-1-80064-656-8
XML978-1-80064-265-2
EPUB978-1-80064-263-8
MOBI978-1-80064-264-5

Language

  • English

Print Length

472 pages (lxx+402)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 33 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.29" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 37 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.44" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1960g (69.14oz)
Hardback2365g (83.42oz)

Media

Illustrations21
Tables1
Videos1

OCLC Number

1269507130

LCCN

2020416930

BIC

  • RN
  • RNT
  • RNA
  • J
  • PSAF

BISAC

  • SCI019000
  • SCI026000
  • SCI042000
  • SOC026040

LCC

  • QC903

Keywords

  • climate change
  • carbon emissions
  • climate activism
  • paradigms
  • extraction
  • climate change frontline country
  • governance
  • finance
  • action
  • climate crisis
  • case studies
  • social sciences
  • climate change negotiation

Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.

Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies.

This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis.

Endorsements

This work by eminent scholars from around the world offers a provocative and deeply insightful analysis of "the politics of paralysis and self-destruction” that have long hindered effective and equitable climate policy over the past 20 years. The book is very timely, and I hope will help to increase the sense of urgency for a deal that will save the planet and billions of poor people around the world that bear a disproportionate impact of climate change.

Prof Chukwumerije Okereke

Director Center of Climate Change and Development, Alex-Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria

Reviews

Böhm (Univ. of Exeter) and Sullivan (Bath Spa Univ.) have brought together a group of writers skilled at communicating the sense of imminent existential challenge, whose recommendations ask much of society. Every reader interested in facing current failures and discussing radically relevant solutions will find something of interest in this volume.

M. C. Stephan

CHOICE connect, vol. 59, no. 12, 2022.

Contents

  • Minna Halme
  • Eeva Furman
  • Eeva-Lotta Apajalahti
  • Jouni Jaakkola
  • Lassi Linnanen
  • Jari Lyytimäki
  • Mikko Mönkkänen
  • Arto O. Salonen
  • Katriina Soini
  • Katriina Siivonen
  • Tuuli Toivonen
  • Anne Tolvanen
  • Wolfgang Knorr
  • James G. Dyke
  • Robert Watson
  • Oliver Belcher
  • Cara Kennelly
  • Ben Neimark
  • Patrick Bigger
  • David Durand-Delacre
  • Giovanni Bettini
  • Sarah L. Nash
  • Harald Sterly
  • Giovanna Gioli
  • Elodie Hut
  • Ingrid Boas
  • Carol Farbotko
  • Patrick Sakdapolrak
  • Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Basundhara Tripathy Furlong
  • Kees van der Geest
  • Samuel Lietaer
  • Mike Hulme
  • Mike Hannis
  • Peter Newell
  • Shahrin Mannan
  • Saleemul Huq
  • Mizan R. Khan
  • Steffen Böhm
  • Sian Sullivan

Contributors

Sian Sullivan

(editor)
Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University