Climate-challenged society

By:

Dryzek, John S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013Description: xiii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780199660117

Subject(s):

Climatic changes --Social aspects

DDC classification:

363.738/74

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-163) and index.

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.

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