Robert K Musil

Hope for a Heated Planet

How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future

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Produktbeschreibung

""Hope for a Heated Planet" is an important and timely book. Musil not only makes a strong case that a real climate movement is underway, he shows how a public health perspective can help to accelerate this hopeful new movement."--Jonathan Isham, editor of "Ignition."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780813544113
• ISBN-10: 0813544114
• Artikelnr.: 23822915

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Musil is a scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor in the School of International Studies at American University where he teaches in the Program on Global Environmental Politics and the Nuclear Studies Institute. He is the past executive director and CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and its director of policy and programs from 1992-2006. He was the executive producer and host of "Consider the Alternatives," a weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with two million listeners and a two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for excellence in radio broadcasting.

Inhaltsangabe

Understanding climate change : a public health approach
Home, home on the range : climate change in the United States
The power of the carbon lobby
Framing and talking about global warming
Assessing the big greens : start over or build from strength?
The new climate movement
Where do emissions and energy come from?
Energy futures
Creating hope : what you can do
Hope for a heated planet : policy and politics