The Politics of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780745655154 | 0745655157
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 10/25/2011
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"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the most formidable challenge humanity faces this century. If climat... MORE
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Climate Change, Risk and Danger | p. 11 |
| The sceptics and their critics | p. 18 |
| The 'climate wars' | p. 21 |
| The radicals | p. 26 |
| Conclusion | p. 31 |
| Running Out, Running Down? | p. 33 |
| Peak oil | p. 36 |
| Sweating the assets | p. 42 |
| The struggle for resources | ... MORE |
| The Greens and After | p. 48 |
| The greens | p. 49 |
| Managing risk: the precautionary principle | p. 55 |
| 'Sustainable development' | p. 59 |
| Over-development | p. 63 |
| Polluter pays | p. 66 |
| Ungreen themes | p. 67 |
| The politics of climate change: concepts | p. 71 |
| The Track Record So Far | p. 76 |
| Sweden, Germany and Denmark | p. 77 |
| Spain and Portugal | p. 82 |
| The case of the UK | p. 83 |
| Climate change policy and the US | p. 87 |
| Lessons to be drawn | p. 90 |
| A Return to Planning? | p. 94 |
| Planning, then and now | p. 98 |
| Changing lives | p. 103 |
| Foregrounding | p. 112 |
| A political concordat | p. 116 |
| State and society: business and the NGOs | p. 120 |
| Technologies and Taxes | p. 129 |
| Technologies: where we stand | p. 131 |
| The role of government | p. 140 |
| Promoting job creation | p. 146 |
| Carbon taxes | p. 151 |
| Carbon rationing | p. 157 |
| The re-emergence of Utopia | p. 160 |
| The Politics of Adaptation | p. 163 |
| Adaptation in the context of Europe | p. 166 |
| Floods in the UK | p. 170 |
| Insurance, hurricanes and typhoons | p. 173 |
| Adaptation: the developing world | p. 178 |
| International Negotiations, the EU and Carbon Markets | p. 185 |
| Further negotiations | p. 189 |
| The role of the EU | p. 195 |
| Carbon markets | p. 198 |
| The Geopolitics of Climate Change | p. 203 |
| An illusory world community? | p. 208 |
| The bottom billion | p. 213 |
| Oil and geopolitics | p. 217 |
| Coalitions and collaborations | p. 220 |
| The US and China | p. 222 |
| India and Brazil | p. 224 |
| In conclusion: why we still need the UN | p. 227 |
| Afterword | p. 229 |
| Notes | p. 233 |
| References | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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Anthony Giddens is former Director of the London School of Economics
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