Harry R. Moody

Climate Change in an Aging Society (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning for investment for a green retirement; and opportunities for political action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040266564
• Artikelnr.: 72295168

Autorenporträt

Harry R. Moody is Visiting Faculty in the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Program of Fielding Graduate University, USA. He is former Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs at AARP in Washington and is currently the editor of the popular Human Values in Aging monthly newsletter. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging, and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He is the author of Ethics in an Aging Society (1992), Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (1988), and over 100 scholarly articles. He is also the co-author of Aging: Concepts and Controversies (10th edition, 2020), Gerontology: The Basics (Routledge, 2018), Dignity and Old Age (Routledge, 1998), and The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages That Shape Our Lives (1997), and the editor of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging: A Social Work Perspective (Routledge, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Climate Change: Here-Now-You-Hope Part I: Climate Change and Aging in
Place 2. The Fire Next Time: Wildfire 3. Flood: The Water Will Come Part
II: Health and Age in a Warming World 4. Heat Wave: The Heat Is On 5.
Drought: Where Did the Water Go? Part III: Ethics 6. Who Is to Blame for
Global Warming? The Wealthy, Rich Countries, Big Business, Older People 7.
What Should We Do? No Time for Excuses Part IV: Actions 8. Becoming a
Climate-Conscious Consumer 9. Investment for a Green Retirement 10. Citizen
Climate Action Part V: Hope 11. Climate Hope and Fear: Waking from the
Dream