Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia - Baer, Hans; Burgmann, Verity
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Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Burgmann and Baer's study offers a vision for an alternative Australia based on the principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.

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Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Burgmann and Baer's study offers a vision for an alternative Australia based on the principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.
Autorenporträt
Verity Burgmann is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the area of the history and politics of radical movements, both labour movements and new social movements such as the green movement. Her 11 books include Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Green Bans, Red Union (1998), Unions and the Environment (2002), Power, Profit and Protest (2003) and Changing the Climate (2011). Hans A Baer, an anthropologist and development studies specialist at the University of Melbourne, has published 18 books and some 170 book chapters and journal articles on a variety of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical medical anthropology, and the Australian climate movement. He is the co-author, along with Merrill Singer, of Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (2009). Baer also authored Global Capitalism and Climate Change (2012).