Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering

By:

Nyberg, Daniel

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2023Description: ix, 243 pISBN:

9781009266932

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DDC classification:

363.73874 NYB

Summary: Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impacts of climate change can be avoided. Explores three key responses to climate change: mitigation, adaptation and suffering Brings together corporate, environmental and social perspectives in one multidisciplinary text Written in a clear, concise style (https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/management/business-ethics/organising-responses-climate-change-politics-mitigation-adaptation-and-suffering?format=PB)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	363.73874 NYB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		006824

Table of content:
Part I. The Politics of Climate Change
1. Organising climate change
2. The hegemony of corporate capitalism
Part II. The Politics of Climate Mitigation
3. Fossil fuel hegemony, green business and growth
4. Challenging fossil fuel expansion
Part III. The Politics of Climate Adaptation
5. Climate adaptation and the maintenance of corporate hegemony
6. Now is not the time: the social construction of adaptation
Part IV. The Politics of Climate Suffering
7. The spectacle of suffering
8. Solidarity and agency in climate suffering
Part V. The Politics of Climate Futures
9. Decarbonisation, degrowth and democracy
10. After the interregnum.
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Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impacts of climate change can be avoided.

Explores three key responses to climate change: mitigation, adaptation and suffering
Brings together corporate, environmental and social perspectives in one multidisciplinary text
Written in a clear, concise style
(https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/management/business-ethics/organising-responses-climate-change-politics-mitigation-adaptation-and-suffering?format=PB)

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