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Surviving Climate Change : The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849643306
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Surviving Climate ChangeDDC classification:
  • 363.73874
LOC classification:
  • QC903.S9378 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Survival Means Renewal -- The Case for Contraction and Convergence -- Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report -- Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector -- Climate Change and the Political Process: Consequences for Government Action in Britain -- First They Blocked, Now Do They Bluff? Corporations Respond to Climate Change -- Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change -- The Mass Media, Climate Change, and How Things Might Be -- Having the Information, but What Do You Then Do With It? The Scientifi c and Academic Communities -- Asleep On Their Watch: Where Were the NGOs? -- Clearing the Pathways To Transformation -- Averting Climate Change: The Need for Enlightened Self- Interest -- Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Appendix 1 A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate Change -- Appendix 2 Climate- related Groups and Other Relevant Websites -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The world's leading climate campaigners offer practical solutions on climate change.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Survival Means Renewal -- The Case for Contraction and Convergence -- Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report -- Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector -- Climate Change and the Political Process: Consequences for Government Action in Britain -- First They Blocked, Now Do They Bluff? Corporations Respond to Climate Change -- Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change -- The Mass Media, Climate Change, and How Things Might Be -- Having the Information, but What Do You Then Do With It? The Scientifi c and Academic Communities -- Asleep On Their Watch: Where Were the NGOs? -- Clearing the Pathways To Transformation -- Averting Climate Change: The Need for Enlightened Self- Interest -- Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Appendix 1 A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate Change -- Appendix 2 Climate- related Groups and Other Relevant Websites -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The world's leading climate campaigners offer practical solutions on climate change.

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