Climate Change and Society

Name: Climate Change and Society
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ISBN: 9780745650371

ISBN-10: 0745650376

ISBN-13: 9780745650371

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Urry

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This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour is economics. By contrast Climate Change and Society tries to place the ls"socialrs" at the heart of both the analysis of climates and of the assessment of alternative futures. It demonstrates the importance of social practices organised into systems. In the fateful twentieth century various interlocking high carbon systems were established. This sedimented high carbon social practices, engendering huge population growth, increasing…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Society matters



Building scientific models of distant futures



The new catastrophism



High carbon lives



Around the world in eighty hours



Politics



Governing catastrophes



Innovating low carbon lives



Alternative future societies


A manifesto for bringing society into climate change


Notes


Index