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This book explains how China's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. This will be an important resource for scholars of international law, environmental law, and Chinese law.

This book highlights best practices in climate change education through the analysis of a rich collection of case studies that showcase educational programs across the United States. It provides climate change researchers and educators with the tools to help them navigate increasingly rough and rising waters.

This book highlights best practices in climate change education through the analysis of a rich collection of case studies that showcase educational programs across the United States. It provides climate change researchers and educators with the tools to help them navigate increasingly rough and rising waters.

This book brings together leading practitioners and researchers in climate diplomacy to take stock of the EU's current role and emerging issues.

This ground-breaking collection is the first of its kind to explore the key features of the post-2020 climate change regime, featuring meticulously researched pieces from leading experts in the field.

Following an overview of the ways climate change is affecting three cities in Africa, this book discusses the equity and climate justice implications, and then gives examples of ways in which a range of local community organizations are extending their current activities to address these challenges, through innovative new programs and initiatives at the grassroots. This approach has implications for communities worldwide.

This book brings together key thinkers in this field to develop a meaningful synthesis between the existing practice of regenerative development and the input of scholars in the social sciences. Aimed at students, scholars and practitioners of regenerative development, climate change, urban planning and public policy.

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental law and policy, and environmental sociology.

This book addresses the important intersection of ageing, wellbeing and climate change in the Arctic region, making a key interdisciplinary contribution to an area of research on which little has been written, and limited sources of information are currently available. It will be of great interest to scholars of climate change, gerontology and social policy.

This book offers a new way of thinking about the significance of locality and everyday life in relation to climate change. Many scholars now write about the ethics, policies and politics of climate change, focusing on global processes and effects. The book¿s innovative approach to cross-cultural comparison and a regionally based ethnographic study moves beyond the political assertions and expert understandings filtered by the mass media. Rather, it asks fundamental questions about the social impact and cultural meanings of global warming and its impact on diverse human worlds embedded in a changing biosphere.

This book addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice, whereas its companions book (Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability) addresses the need to integrate social science and social welfare theories to identify, enhance and support equitable and sustainable solutions.

By bringing together a range of Asian city experiences in addressing the challenges posed by climate change, this book provides valuable insights into how cities can overcome some of the barriers to building climate resilience, including addressing the needs of vulnerable populations and building up their governance capacities. Drawing together a range of expert contributors, Responding to climate change in Asian cities will be of great interest to scholars of urban studies, sustainability and environmental studies, Asian studies and development studies.

This book addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice, whereas its companions book (Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability) addresses the need to integrate social science and social welfare theories to identify, enhance and support equitable and sustainable solutions.

This book focuses on the collaborative arrangements being developed where citizen initiatives, engagement and participation in climate change mitigation meets public agencies and their possible plans and strategies. One of key conclusions presented in the book is that the traditional approach to influence environmental behavior, characterized by top-down and individual approaches, does not suffice to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of our societies, and must be supplemented by approaches that focus more explicitly on the collaboration between local collective initiatives and local governments.

This book examines how collaborative climate change responses are emerging, being operationalized and evaluated within a range of geographical and socio-political contexts across the globe.

Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response industry, or ''Climate Inc.'', is failing. Reimagining Climate Change questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing the political imagination. The chapters grasp the larger arc of collective experience, interpret its meaning for the choices we face, and creatively visualize alternative trajectories that can help us cognitively and emotionally enter into alternative climate futures. They probe the meaning and effectiveness of climate protection ''from below''-forms of community and practice that are emerging in various locales around the world and that hold promise for greater collective resonance. They also question climate protection "from above" in the form of industrial and modernist orientations and examine large-scale agribusinesses, as well as criticize the concept of resilience as it is presently being promoted as a response to climate change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, global environmental politics, and environmental studies in general, as well as climate change activists.

This book, which brings together scholars from both economics and ethical theory, explores the interrelation between climate ethics and economics. Examining a wide range of topics including sustainability, conceptions of value, risk management and the monetization of harm, this book will explore the ethical limitations of economic analysis but, at the same time, will not assume that economic theory cannot accommodate the concerns raised.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, economics, political science, political philosophy and the philosophy of economics.

Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability is an interdisciplinary collection which addresses global climate change and sustainability by engaging with the issues of race, gender, and class through an intersectional lens. The book challenges readers to foster new theoretical and practical linkages and to think beyond the traditional, and oftentimes reductionist, environmental science frame by examining issues within their turbulent political, cultural and personal landscapes. Through a variety of media and writing styles, this collection is unique in its presentation of a complex and integrated analysis of global climate change and its implications. Its companion book, Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change, addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice.

Drawing upon episodes of wartime mobilisations, this book lays out contingency climate action strategies based upon the relative optimism provided by rapid deployment of demonstrated and proven sustainable energy technologies that could effectively abate further emissions. While the book makes use of these historical lessons as blueprint for climate strategies, it also critically examines the appropriateness, limitations and challenges of the contingency plan.

This book examines the main opportunities and challenges to the implementation of environmental co-benefits (policies and strategies that simultaneously contribute to addressing climate change and solving local environmental problems) in urban areas. Drawing on the results of empirical research done in Brazil, China, Indonesia, India and Japan, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, climate policy and environmental studies in general.

The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ''bottom up''. Recent scholarship has sought to theorise grassroots community-based low carbon practices in terms of their sustainability transition potential. However there are few empirical examples that demonstrate the factors for success of community-based social innovations in achieving more widespread adoption outside of their local, sustainability ''niche''. The book seeks to address two significant gaps related to grassroots climate action: firstly the continuing dominance of the individualisation of responsibility for climate change action which presupposes that individuals hold both the ability and desire to shift their behaviours and lifestyle choices to align with a low carbon future. Secondly, the potential for community-based collectives to influence mainstream climate change governance, an area significantly under researched. Drawing on empirical research into Australian Climate Action Groups (CAGs) and related international research, the book argues that grassroots community-based collective action on climate change holds the key to broader social change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, citizen participation, environmental sociology and sustainable development.

This book addresses the important intersection of ageing, wellbeing and climate change in the Arctic region, making a key interdisciplinary contribution to an area of research on which little has been written, and limited sources of information are currently available. It will be of great interest to scholars of climate change, gerontology and social policy.

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.