Surviving climate change : the struggle to avert global catastrophe /
An insightful and inspiring collection of essays from some of the foremost thinkers on climate change. Not to be missed.' Mark Lynas, author of High Tide (Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2004) 'A visionary and hopeful book -- an essential survival guide in turbulent times.' Caroline Lucas, Gr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction : Survival means renewal / Mark Levene and David Cromwell
- pt. 1. The big picture
- 1. The case for contraction and convergence / Aubrey Meyer
- pt. 2. The state and its apparatus
- 2. Thinking the worst : the Pentagon Report / Dave Webb
- 3. Preparing for mass refugee flows : the corporate military sector / Steve Wright
- 4. Climate change and the political process : consequences for government action in Britain / James Humphreys
- pt. 3. Critical players
- 5. First they blocked, now do they bluff? Corporations respond to climate change Melanie Jarman
- 6. Mostly missing the point : business responds to climate change / David Ballard
- 7. The mass media, climate change, and how things might be / John Theobald and Marianne McKiggan
- 8. Having the information, but what do you then do with it? The scientific and academic communities / Jonathan Ward
- 9. Asleep on their watch : where were the NGOs? / George Marshall
- pt. 4. The challenge ahead
- 10. Clearing the pathways to transformation / Susan Ballard and David Ballard
- 11. Averting climate change : the need for enlightened self-interest / Jim Scott
- Afterword : Where do we go from here? / Mayer Hillman
- appendix 1. A layperson's glossary of the global politics of climate change / Tim Helweg-Larsen and Jo Abbess
- appendix 2. Climate-related groups and other relevant websites
- Notes on contributors
- Index.