Contemporary Climate Change Debates

Name: Contemporary Climate Change Debates
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138333024
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Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative textbook presenting 15 key questions about climate change. Divided into four parts—what we need to know, what we should do, the grounds for action, and the agents of change—the book features paired debates by leading or emerging academics presenting opposing viewpoints. Designed to foster critical thinking, each chapter ends with further reading and discussion questions, drawing from sciences, social sciences, and humanities to explore the ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic, technological, and political challenges of climate change.
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Ideal for students studying climate change, environmental policy, politics, and sustainable development, as well as anyone interested in engaging with diverse perspectives and debates surrounding climate change challenges.

Contemporary Debates on Climate Change is an innovative textbook which addresses a number of key issues in climate change studies. This book is essential reading for all students of climate change, as well as those studying environmental and sustainability more broadly.

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Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.

For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become effective learning devices for students. This book is organised around 15 important questions and is split into four parts:

What do we need to know?
What should we do?
On what grounds should we base our actions?
Who should be the agents of change?

Each debate is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format, the book is designed to introduce students of climate change to different arguments prompted by these questions and also provides a unique opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate amongst themselves. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and with discussion questions for use in student classes.

Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences and humanities to debate these ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic, technological and political roadblocks, Contemporary Climate Change Debates is essential reading for all students of climate change, as well as those studying environmental policy and politics and sustainable development more broadly.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138333024

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Mike Hulme

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 980g

Pages: 252

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK, founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Reseach and Editor-in-Chief of the review journal WIREs Climate Change. He is the author of eight books on climate change, including Why We Disagree About Climate Change and Can Science Fix Climate Change?