Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a comprehensive guide that provides insights into the multifaceted relationship between climate change and society and covers a wide array of topics, disciplines, and cultures, from the latest trends in weather patterns to the issue of climate (in)justice. The second edition, which is overwhelmingly comprised of all-new essays, is an indispensable resource for those interested in understanding the complexities of climate change and its societal implications.
The book contains seven thematically organized sections examining the various aspects of climate change and its intersection with our society: Climate Change in the Natural and Social Sciences; Human Population, Movement, and Health; Economics, Energy, and Consumption; Urban Climate Resiliency; Technological Innovations and Pitfalls; Gender, Poverty, and Justice; and Politics and Governance. Each part provides a unique and important perspective for understanding the challenges as well as opportunities presented by climate change.
Through original research findings and critical analysis, this book sheds light on the urgent need for interdisciplinary approaches to tackle climate change effectively. By examining the intersectionality of climate change with various social, economic, and political factors, it offers valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, activists, and anyone concerned about the future of our planet. With a forward-looking perspective that emphasizes optimism and resilience, this book serves as a tool for fostering hope and collective action in the face of climate change challenges.
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a comprehensive guide that provides insights into the multifaceted relationship between climate change and society and covers a wide array of topics, disciplines, and cultures, from the latest trends in weather patterns to the issue of climate (in)justice.
Introduction and Overview Part I: Climate Change in the Natural and
Social Sciences
1. History of Climate Science and Its Politics
2. Climate
Change: From Science to Solutions
3. Climate Change and Air Quality: Role of
Atmospheric Aerosols and Challenges to Society
4. Advances in Research on
Anthropogenic Drivers of Climate Change
5. The Need for Coupled Models of
Human-Natural Systems to Study Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Part II:
Human Population, Movement, and Health
6. Population and Climate Change:
Global Overview
7. Human Impacts on the Climate Prior to the Industrial
Revolution
8. Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration
9. Climate Change,
Mental Health, and Eco-Anxiety
10. Childrens Health and Wellbeing in a
Changing Climate Part III: Economics, Energy, and Consumption
11. Climate
Change Economics: A Humbling Retrospective
12. Anthropocentrism and Climate
Change: Radical Re-Orientation Away from Greenwashing and toward Degrowth in
Business Education
13. Super Polluters
14. High-Carbon Lifestyles
15.
Household Decision-making in the Climate Crisis Part IV: Urban Climate
Resiliency
16. Deep Residential Building Efficiency as a Climate and
Resilience Strategy
17. Babcock RanchShelter From The Storm
18. Overcoming
Barriers for Strong Sustainable Consumption Policy: The Case of the
Amsterdam Doughnut Part V: Technological Innovations and Pitfalls
19.
Technology and Climate Change: Social Barriers to Progress in the US
20.
Climate Engineering: Worth the Risks?
21. The Climate Change Crisis and the
Limits of Technological Solutions Part VI: Gender, Poverty, and Justice
22.
The Importance of Addressing Masculinity and Climate Change: Toward a
Masculinist Denial Framework
23. The Role of Women in Environmental Activism:
Considerations on North-South Relations in the Context of Climate Change
24.
Climate Change and Poverty
25. Exploring Indigenous Climate Justice in
Aotearoa New Zealands Climate Adaptation Planning Part VII: Politics and
Governance
26. How Important are International Climate Negotiations?
27.
Challenges of Climate Security Research and Practice in the Context of the
Anthropocene
28. Climate Change and Public Relations Firms
29. Green
Amendments for The GenerationsMaking Environmental Rights an Enforceable
Reality
30. Mitigating Climate Change through Corporatism: The Historical
Record in Costa Rica
31. Future Governance Under Climate Change:
Authoritarianism or Democracy? Commentaries on Future Governance Under
Climate Change: Authoritarianism or Democracy? Closing Words Solarpunk:
Radical Optimism as Praxis
Steven R. Brechin is Professor of Sociology and Research Affiliate at Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute at Rutgers University, USA. His research explores the sociology of climate change, including collective and cross-national action against climate change, geoengineering controversies, climate finance, and sustainable lifestyles. He is the author of Planting Trees in the Developing Word: A Sociology of International Organizations (1997) and co-editor of Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation (1991), Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas & Observations (1993), and Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2003).
Seungyun Lee is a PhD student in Sociology at Rutgers University, USA. Her main areas of research are climate change emotions and sustainable lifestyles. Her masters thesis examines how national climate policy affects individual experiences of climate anxiety. Another current project of hers investigates how and why people embrace a slow, sustainable lifestyle in a small community in Northern Michigan, and the role of privilege, networks, and geography in creating this community.
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