Climate Change
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A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation
The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Climate Change Policies
China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China’s key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However,...
Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Cities and Climate Change
Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Cities and Low Carbon Transitions
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...
Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Action Upsurge
The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy...
To Be Published October 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Climate Change Adaptation Manual
Lessons Learned from European and Other Industrialized Countries
Due to the lack of success in climate change mitigation efforts, the importance of adaptation is becoming more and more apparent and is now one of the main imperatives of international research and action. However, research on adaptation is mostly not directly applicable to adaptation policy or...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Climate change is the defining developmental challenge of our times. First, its impacts threaten to reverse hard won developmental achievements of past decades. Poor countries and peoples will generally be hit soonest and hardest despite them contributing least to causing the problem. Second, our...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Social Ecology
A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge
Although strategies to prevent global warming – such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use – are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed. They have also been unwilling to...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Change at the City Scale
Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town
Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions...
Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Change Denial
Heads in the Sand
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case....
Published April 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Climate Change Negotiations
A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation
As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating...
Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Climate Economics
The State of the Art
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert...
Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Climate Resilient Development
Participatory solutions from developing countries
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate resilient development in the context of current...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Scaling it up
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions
This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term...
Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Critical Environmental Politics
Series: Interventions
The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions, problems, and research agendas in the field. The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism, and spanning disciplines...
To Be Published October 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Design for Climate Change
Aimed at architects, contractors, engineers and specialists in the field, this book uses real-world evidence from a Technology Strategy Board-funded research project to develop a set of tools for architects and other building designers to meet a growing need to anticipate future climate change....
Published April 4th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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Ecological Consequences of Climate Change
Mechanisms, Conservation, and Management
Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century. Climate fingerprints are being detected and documented in the responses of hundreds of wildlife species and numerous ecosystems around the world. To...
Published October 23rd 2011 by CRC Press
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Engaging with Climate Change
Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series
How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to...
Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition
A clear, concise discussion of today’s hottest topics in climate change, including adapting to climate change and geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of change, Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition takes on the tough questions of what to do and offers real solutions to the...
Published March 21st 2013 by CRC Press
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Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic
This is the first comprehensive exploration of why human security is relevant to the Arctic and what achieving it can mean, covering the areas of health of the environment, identity of peoples, supply of traditional foods, community health, economic opportunities, and political stability. The...
To Be Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading
Towards a Low-Carbon Future
Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about...
Published December 19th 2012 by RFF Press
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Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society
An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that...
To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Four Degrees of Global Warming
Australia in a Hot World
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal....
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Gender and Climate Change Financing
Coming Out of the Margin
Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
Since the coming into force of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) and its associated Kyoto Protocol (1997), there have been growing efforts by gender equality and women’s empowerment advocates, both at the governmental, inter-governmental and nongovernmental levels to...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. There is great uncertainty regarding its future impacts on a planetary scale and the extent to which each eco-system and region will be affected. Although there has been much published on climate change mitigation policies,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change
Social Scientific Investigations
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies,...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Hydrometeorological Disasters and Climate Change
This volume reflects and informs on space-based technologies for hazards and disaster research. It covers a wide range of aspects to take into account, and demonstrates the great potential of space-based technologies in supplying information in near real-time and in the application of data in...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by CRC Press
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International Climate Finance
The book is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address climate change in developing countries. The book presents the best information available...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Combating Climate Change
An Agricultural Perspective
The effects of climate change can already be felt around the world, and they will likely impact all facets of human civilization—from health, livelihood security, agricultural production, and shelter to international trade. Since anthropogenic factors are mainly to blame for the current trends in...
Published March 25th 2013 by CRC Press
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Megacities and the Coast
Risk, Resilience and Transformation
Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of...
To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the...
To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Post-Kyoto Climate Governance
Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal...
Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing international climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. There is great uncertainty regarding its future impacts on a planetary scale and the extent to which each eco-system and region will be affected. Although there has been much published on climate change mitigation policies,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Successful Adaptation to Climate Change
Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management...
To Be Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Climate Bonus
Co-benefits of Climate Policy
We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...
Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Global Warming
The Terminal Crisis
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the...
To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime
A Proposed Framework
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation strategies such as those agreed at the Durban Platform of December 2011. This climate regime aims to define...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Transport, Climate Change and the City
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Sustainable travel behaviours have long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities of Asia, South America and Africa. Progress however appears difficult to make as the private car, still largely fuelled by...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But...
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Water and Climate Change in Africa
Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be...
Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge