Surviving Climate Change : The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe.
Cromwell, David.
Surviving Climate Change : The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (300 pages)
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.
9781849643306
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Prevention.
Electronic books.
QC903.S9378 2007
363.73874
Surviving Climate Change : The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (300 pages)
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.
9781849643306
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Prevention.
Electronic books.
QC903.S9378 2007
363.73874