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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797689203321

Autore

Ciplet David

Titolo

Power in a warming world : the new global politics of climate change and the remaking of environmental inequality / / David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan, Earth System Governance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England, : MIT Press, [2015]

ISBN

0-262-33004-0

0-262-33003-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Earth System Governance

Disciplina

363.738/74

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Political aspects

Global warming - Political aspects

Environmental justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Trading a livable world -- Power shift -- Beyond the north-south divide? -- Manufacturing consent -- The politics of adaptation -- The staying power of big fossil -- Society too civil? -- Contesting climate injustice -- Power in a future world -- Linking movements for justice.

Sommario/riassunto

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 this book, the authors bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers, and activists to bear on this urgent question.