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The politics of climate change /

By: Giddens, Anthony.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Polity Press, 2011Edition: 2nd edition.Description: ix, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780745655147; 9780745655147:; 0745655149; 9780745655154 (pb); 0745655157 (pb).Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Political aspects | Climatic changes -- Government policy | Political ecology | Energy policy | Security, InternationalDDC classification: 363.738746 | GID
Contents:
Introduction -- Climate change, risk and danger -- Running out, running down? -- The greens and after -- The track record so far -- A return to planning? -- Technologies and taxes -- The politics of adaptation -- International negotiations, the EU and carbon markets -- The geopolitics of climate change.
Summary: Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.

Introduction -- Climate change, risk and danger -- Running out, running down? -- The greens and after -- The track record so far -- A return to planning? -- Technologies and taxes -- The politics of adaptation -- International negotiations, the EU and carbon markets -- The geopolitics of climate change.

Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change.

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