Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement

Herausgeber: Dietz, Matthias; Garrelts, Heiko

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 an important role in environmental politics and conservation. In its breadth, balance and depth, this accessible volume offers a fresh and important take on the question of social mobilization around climate change, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 177mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781138232235
• ISBN-10: 1138232238
• Artikelnr.: 46767628

Autorenporträt

Matthias Dietz is a political scientist at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Germany. Heiko Garrelts is a political scientist at the Research Centre for Sustainability Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. The cover photo was taken by Toben Dilworth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Contours of the International Climate Movement -
Conception and Contents of the Handbook Part 1 Theoretical Prospects of the
Climate Movement 2. Framing Processes in the Climate Movement: from Climate
Change to Climate Justice 3. Democratizing the Climate Negotiations System
through Improved Opportunities for Participation 4. Antagonistic
Standpoints: The Climate Justice Coalition Viewed in Light of a Theory of
Societal Relationships with Nature 5. The Climate Justice Movement and the
Hegemonic Discourse of Technology 6. Climate Justice from the Perspective
of Philosophy Part 2 Components of the Climate Movement 7. The Green
Movement in Britain 8. The Climate Movement in Germany 9. Movements for
Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide 10. The Australian Climate
Movement: A disparate response to climate change and climate politics in a
not so 'lucky country' 11. The Climate Movement in Brazil - Professionalism
and Ideological Differences Dörte Segebart und Claudia König 12. India -
The long march to a climate movement 13. China's Emerging Climate Change
Movement - Finding a Place to Stand 14. Climate Justice In, By and For
Africa 15. Activist Profile Bill McKibben 16. Activist Profile Naomi Klein
17. Activist Profile James Hansen 18. Activist Profile Gore Popular
Activists 19. Activist Profile Tim DeChristopher 20. Activist Profile Anna
Rose 21. Activist Profiles David Spratt und Phillip Sutton International
NGOs and Network Organizations 22. Organization Profile Climate Action
Network International 23. Organization Profile Climate Justice Now! 24.
Organization Profile La Via Campesina 25. Organization Profile Friends of
the Earth International 26. Organization Profile Climate Alliance Climate
NGOs from the US 27. Organization Profile 350.org 28. Organization Profile
Rising Tide 29. Organization Profile Energy Action Coalition Climate NGOs
from Europe 30. Organization Profile Plane Stupid 31. Organization Profile
Germanwatch Part 3 Arenas, Activities and Development of the Climate
Movement 32. Between Pragmatism and Radicalization. NGOs and Social
Movements in International Climate Politics 33. Re-Framing Climate Change:
The Cochabamba Conference and Global Climate Politics 34. Debates and
Conflicts in the Climate Movement 35. Small Island States and the new
Climate Change: the Case of Kiribati 36. Ambivalent involvement:
Civil-Society Actors in Forest Carbon Offsets. The case of the Climate
Community and Biodiversity Standards (CCB) 37. In the Periphery of the
Climate Movement - Humanitarian Organizations 38. Conclusion: Results of
the Handbook - State, Influence and Future of the Climate Movement