Christopher Shaw

The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change

Public Understanding and Decision Making

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first dedicated to questioning the issue of a single, global dangerous amount of climate change within a social science framework. It should be of interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change communication, and science, technology and society studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781138782952
• ISBN-10: 1138782955
• Artikelnr.: 42410140

Autorenporträt

Christopher Shaw is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Climate Change Narratives 1. The stories we tell about
climate change 2. Two Degrees and the environmental limits 3. Critical
discourse analysis of climate change narratives Part 2 Defining dangerous
climate change 4. The science of the two degree limit 5. Do public
narratives reflect the science? 6. Who loses in a two degree world Part 3
The future of the two degree limit 7. What next for two degrees? 8. Climate
change - the terminus of modernity? Conclusion