Contemporary climate change debates : a student primer / edited by Mike Hulme.
"Contemporary Debates on Climate Change is an innovative textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change. For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate adaptation and resilience, structured debates become effective learning devices for students. This book...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Why and how to debate climate change / Mike Hulme
- Is climate change the most important challenge of our times?
- Is the concept of 'tipping point' helpful for describing and communicating possible climate futures?
- Should individual extreme weather events be attributed to human agency?
- Does climate change drive violence, conflict and human migration?
- Can the social cost of carbon be calculated?
- Are carbon markets the best way to address climate change?
- Should future investments in energy technology be limited exclusively to renewables?
- Is it necessary to research solar climate engineering as a possible backstop technology?
- Is emphasising consensus in climate science helpful for policymaking?
- Do rich people rather than rich countries bear the greatest responsibility for climate change?
- Is climate change a human rights violation?
- Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors?
- Is legal adjudication essential for enforcing ambitious climate change policies?
- Does the 'Chinese model' of environmental governance demonstrate to the world how to govern the climate?
- Are new social media making constructive climate policymaking harder?