Climate-challenged Society
by John S. Dryzek /
2013 / English / PDF
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking
introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that
climate change presents and how societies can respond. It
synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of
social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding
climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is
written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent,
integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond
their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate
change.
This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking
introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that
climate change presents and how societies can respond. It
synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of
social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding
climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is
written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent,
integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond
their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate
change.
The coverage begins with an examination of science, public opinion,
and policy making, with special attention to organized climate
change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and its
limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice; governance at
all levels from the local to the global; and the challenge of an
emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly unintended consequences
of human action drive the earth system into a more chaotic and
unstable era. The conclusion considers the prospects for
fundamental transition in ideas, movements, economics, and
governance.
The coverage begins with an examination of science, public opinion,
and policy making, with special attention to organized climate
change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and its
limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice; governance at
all levels from the local to the global; and the challenge of an
emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly unintended consequences
of human action drive the earth system into a more chaotic and
unstable era. The conclusion considers the prospects for
fundamental transition in ideas, movements, economics, and
governance.
