A short accessible introductory treatment of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.

• Preface


• 1: Climate's Challenges


• 2: Constructing Science and Dealing with Denial


• 3: The Costs of Inaction and the Limits of Economics


• 4: Actions that Promise and Practices that Fall Short


• 5: What's Just?


• 6: Governance


• 7: The Anthropocene


• 8: Transition, Resilience, and Reconstruction

John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He is the author of a number of books on democracy and environmental politics.
Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an eclectic ecological economist.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on environmental political theory, environmental justice, and environmental movements.