A systematic examination by the best writers in a variety of fields working on issues of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.

• Contents


• PART I: INTRODUCTION


• 1: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg: Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses


• PART II: THE CHALLENGE AND ITS HISTORY


• 2: Will Steffen: A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem


• 3: Dale Jamieson: The Nature of the Problem


• 4: Mark Sagoff: The Poverty of Climate Economics


• 5: Spencer Weart: The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change


• 6: Maarten A. Hajer and Wytske Versteeg: Voices of Vulnerability: The Reconfiguration of Policy Discourses


• 7: Timothy W. Luke: Environmentality


• PART III: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND PUBLIC OPINION


• 8: Hans von Storch, Armin Bunde, and Nico Stehr: The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics


• 9: Sheila Jasanoff: Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology


• 10: Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright: Organized Climate Change Denial


• 11: Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling: Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science-Action Gap


• PART IV: SOCIAL IMPACTS


• 12: Robert Mendelsohn: Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change


• 13: Richard B. Norgaard: Weighing Climate Futures: A Critical Review of the Application of Economic Valuation


• 14: Colin Polsky and Hallie Eakin: Global Change Vulnerability Assessments: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities


• 15: Elizabeth G. Hanna: Health Hazards


• 16: Robert Melchior Figueroa: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses


• PART V: SECURITY


• 17: Nils Gilman, Doug Randall, and Peter Schwartz: Climate Change and "Security "


• 18: Jon Barnett: Human Security


• 19: Timothy Doyle and Sanjay Chaturvedi: Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories, and Contestations


• PART VI: JUSTICE


• 20: Simon Dietz: From Efficiency to Justice: Utility as the Informational Basis for Climate Strategies, and Some Alternatives


• 21: Stephen M. Gardiner: Climate Justice


• 22: Paul Baer: International Justice


• 23: Richard Howarth: Intergenerational Justice


• PART VII: PUBLICS AND MOVEMENTS


• 24: Matthew C. Nisbet: Public Opinion and Participation


• 25: Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Corina McKendry: Social Movements and Global Civil Society


• 26: Paul Routledge: Transnational Climate Justice Solidarities


• 27: Kari Marie Norgaard: Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture, and Political Economy


• 28: Laurel Kearns: The Role of Religions in Activism


• PART VIII: GOVERNMENT RESPONSES


• 29: Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley: Comparing State Responses


• 30: Miranda A. Schreurs: Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China


• 31: Harriet Bulkeley: Cities and Subnational Governments


• 32: Daniel A. Farber: Issues of Scale in Climate Governance


• 33: Ian Gough and James Meadowcroft: Decarbonizing the Welfare State


• 34: Sivan Kartha: Discourses of The Global South


• PART IX: POLICY INSTRUMENTS


• 35: David Harrison, Andrew Foss, Per Klevnas, and Daniel Radov: Economic Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions


• 36: Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito: Policy Instruments in Practice


• 37: Clive L. Spash: Carbon Trading: A Critique


• 38: Mark Diesendorf: Redesigning Energy Systems


• PART X: PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS


• 39: Simone Pulver: Corporate Responses


• 40: Andrew Szasz: Is Green Consumption Part of the Solution?


• PART XI: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE


• 41: Matthew Paterson: Selling Carbon: From International Climate Regime to Global Carbon Market


• 42: Oran R. Young: Improving the Performance of the Climate Regime: Insights from Regime Analysis


• 43: Paul G. Harris: Reconceptualizing Global Governance


• 44: Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett: The Role of International Law in Global Governance


• PART XII: RECONSTRUCTION


• 45: Karin Bäckstrand: The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance After Copenhagen


• 46: Frank Biermann: New Actors and Mechanisms of Global Governance


• 47: W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, and James Waters: Resilience

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