Global Warming And Global Politics

Author : Matthew Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134772831
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Warming and Global Politics written by Matthew Paterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major theories within international relations, and how these can help us understand the emergence of global warming as a political issue.

Author : Andrew E. Dessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521831703
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change written by Andrew E. Dessler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the climate-change debate for non-specialists.

Author : David Ciplet
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262330040
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power in a Warming World written by David Ciplet and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes. After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change? In Power in a Warming World, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan, bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers, and activists to bear on this urgent question. Combining rich empirical description with a political economic view of power relations, they document the struggles of states and social groups most vulnerable to a changing climate and describe the emergence of new political coalitions that take climate politics beyond a simple North-South divide. They offer six future scenarios in which power relations continue to shift as the world warms. A focus on incremental market-based reform, they argue, has proven insufficient for challenging the enduring power of fossil fuel interests, and will continue to be inadequate without a bolder, more inclusive and aggressive response.

Author : Paul G. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134376227
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Warming and East Asia written by Paul G. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, often disproportionately affected; increasing our understanding of a region vital to mitigating and coping with climate.

Author : J. Timmons Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264412
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Climate of Injustice written by J. Timmons Roberts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial nations, including the United States, refuse to curtail their own excesses unless developing countries make similar sacrifices. Meanwhile, although industrialized countries are responsible for 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, developing countries suffer the "worst and first" effects of climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods, and storms, because of their geographical locations. In A Climate of Injustice, J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley Parks analyze the role that inequality between rich and poor nations plays in the negotiation of global climate agreements. Roberts and Parks argue that global inequality dampens cooperative efforts by reinforcing the "structuralist" worldviews and causal beliefs of many poor nations, eroding conditions of generalized trust, and promoting particularistic notions of "fair" solutions. They develop new measures of climate-related inequality, analyzing fatality and homelessness rates from hydrometeorological disasters, patterns of "emissions inequality," and participation in international environmental regimes. Until we recognize that reaching a North-South global climate pact requires addressing larger issues of inequality and striking a global bargain on environment and development, Roberts and Parks argue, the current policy gridlock will remain unresolved.

Author : Del Weston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135084939
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Global Warming written by Del Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too often seen as an isolated problem rather than one of a suite of exceptional, converging and accelerating crises arising from the global capitalist political economy. This book adopts a political economy framework to address these issues. It accepts the science of global warming but challenges the predominant politics and economics of global warming. To illustrate the key issues involved, the book draws on South Africa – building on Samir Amin’s thesis that the country represents a microcosm of the global political economy. By taking a political economy approach, the book provides a clear explanation of the deep and pervasive problem of the denial which fails to acknowledge global warming as a systemic rather than a market problem. The book should be of interest to students and scholars researching climate change, environmental politics, environmental and ecological economics, development studies and political economics.

Author : Steve Vanderheiden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Global Climate Change written by Steve Vanderheiden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how political theory challenges and is challenged by global climate change, the book both demonstrates and evaluates innovative approaches in the developing field of environmental political theory.

Author : Raymond S. Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558498686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Warming and Political Intimidation written by Raymond S. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful book, highly respected climate scientist Raymond Bradley provides the inside story from the front lines of the global warming debate. He describes the tactics those in power have used to intimidate him and his colleagues.

Author : Urs Luterbacher
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621496
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations and Global Climate Change written by Urs Luterbacher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-10-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys current conceptual, theoretical, and methodological approaches to global climate change and international relations. Although it focuses on the role of states, it also examines the role of nonstate actors and international organizations whenever state-centric explanations are insufficient.The book begins with a discussion of environmental constraints on human activities, the environmental consequences of human activities, and the history of global climate change cooperation. It then moves to an analysis of the global climate regime from various conceptual and theoretical perspectives. These include realism and neorealism, historical materialism, neoliberal institutionalism and regime theory, and epistemic community and cognitive approaches. Stressing the role of nonstate actors, the book looks at the importance of the domestic-international relationship in negotiations on climate change. It then looks at game-theoretical and simulation approaches to the politics of global climate change. It emphasizes questions of equity and the legal difficulties of implementing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It concludes with a discussion of global climate change and other aspects of international relations, including other global environmental accords and world trade. The book also contains Internet references to major relevant documents.

Author : M. Paterson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230536778
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Global Environmental Politics written by M. Paterson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.