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Climate change, consumption and intergenerational justice : Lived experiences in China, Uganda and the UK.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialised and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Bristol shorts research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Climate Change Consumption and Intergenerational Justice; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures and Photographs; Notes on the Authors; Acknowledgments; One Introduction; About INTERSECTION; Case studies; Fieldwork and focus of this book; Note on cross-cultural research; Two A Global and Intergenerational Storm; Introduction; Consumption and climate change; The global picture; Environmental justice and sustainability; An international and intergenerational injustice; The global storm; Regional risks; Complex geographies; Who is responsible?
- The intergenerational stormThe long threat of climate change; Synchronic and diachronic intergenerational equity; Intergenerational concerns in China; Intergenerational concerns in Uganda; Intergenerational concerns in the UK; A human sense of climate and social change; Overview of this book; Three Local Narratives of Climate Change; Introduction; "How will I predict the climate when I'm not a scientist?"; Cultures of climate; Local narratives of climate change; "Everyone wants to live in a city full of green trees"; "People expect the rain to rain": weather as (dis)proof of climate change
- "We're in the wrong place": perceived (in)vulnerability to climate changeGenerational narratives of environmental change; "I've not seen a peasouper since I was a teenager"; "The planet we took from our parents' generation featured green mountains"; Chapter summary; Four Moral Geographies of Climate Change; Introduction; Who is responsible for what? Climate change blame narratives; "We people are the people who are changing the world"; "People shouldn't be ashamed that it's their problem"; "A tiny change brings a far reaching outcome": globalizing responsibility
- "That's the fear I have for the grandchildren": caring for the future"We want the day-to-day life": unimagining the future; "More of a now thing": imagined development trajectories; "If we want to develop the economy, we have to face pollution"; Chapter summary; Five Intergenerational Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption; Introduction; "People who once lived a poor life can spend money on what they like"; "This generation doesn't have the patience to leave the tree standing"; "The grannies are still planting": idealized sustainable lifestyles; "Make do and mend" and "qínjia.n jiéyue.̄"
- "All I see is landfill sometimes": the totemic role of wasteChapter summary; Six Imagining Alternative Futures; Introduction; Intergenerational community-based research and creative practice; Case study 1: Write About Time; Case study 2: 'We Are the Foundations'; Case study 3: Sustainability Dancer; Concluding remarks: facing the future; References; Index; Back Cover