Constance Lever-Tracy

Confronting Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, Constance Lever-Tracy provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in confronting climate change, Lever-Tracy provides a sober, critical assessment of the politics of global warming and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136819841
• Artikelnr.: 38277475

Autorenporträt

Constance Lever-Tracy was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia, now retired. Her recent work includes editing the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2010), and the entry for 'Global Warming' in the International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: What Do We Know? 1. Introduction to Part 1 2. Knowns
and Unknowns 3. Manifest Vulnerabilities 4. Future Risks 5. Confronting the
Risks Part 2: What Can We Do? 6. Introduction to Part 2 7. Changing Our
Practices 8. Changing Our Power: Natural Gas, Biofuels and Nuclear Energy
9. Changing Our Power: Water, Wind, Sun and Earth 10. Adapting to a
Changing Climate Part 3: Who Can Do It? 11. From the Bottom Up or the Top
Down 12. Global Conflict or Cooperation? 13. Conclusion