Climate Change And Democracy Insights From Asia And The Pacific

Author : Joo-Cheong Tham, Eselealofa ‘Ese’ Apinelu,Julien Barbara,Motoky Hayakawa,Elise Howard,Om Katel,Romitesh Kant,Khalisah Khalid,Melissa Low,Niranjan Sahoo
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789176716342

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Climate Change and Democracy: Insights from Asia and the Pacific by Joo-Cheong Tham, Eselealofa ‘Ese’ Apinelu,Julien Barbara,Motoky Hayakawa,Elise Howard,Om Katel,Romitesh Kant,Khalisah Khalid,Melissa Low,Niranjan Sahoo Pdf

Democracy is on trial in the climate crisis. It is charged with having failed to prevent dangerous climate change. To its critics, the very same features of democracy praised as its defining virtues—popular sovereignty, the accountability and responsiveness of elected officials, public debate and deliberation—are handicaps that impede effective climate action. However, this trial is not over and it would not be safe to deliver a verdict at this stage. The case for authoritarian regimes is flawed in both theory and practice and while it is late for preventing the worst impacts of climate change, there is still a window to provide a climate-safe future. Here, it is overwhelmingly democratic nations that are taking the lead. With this in mind, this Report focuses on democracy and the climate crisis in the Asia and the Pacific region. A regional approach based on case studies has been chosen to contextualize the challenges to democracy arising from this crisis. The Asia and the Pacific region is significant for several reasons—it is the most populous in the world; it is a region that will be disproportionately affected by climate change and where many countries are considered highly vulnerable; and, as this Report makes clear, it is also a place where there have been vibrant innovations to democratic institutions and practices for dealing with the climate crisis.

Author : Mozaharul Alam,Jeongho Lee,Puja Sawhney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030075923

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Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific by Mozaharul Alam,Jeongho Lee,Puja Sawhney Pdf

Author : Mark S. Williams
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487525996

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The Politics of the Asia-Pacific by Mark S. Williams Pdf

This book introduces readers to the deep political tensions in the Asia-Pacific and offers classroom simulations designed to encourage students to delve deeper into the issues and dynamics of the region.

Author : David Shearman,Joseph Wayne Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313345050

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The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy by David Shearman,Joseph Wayne Smith Pdf

This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction—and climate change in particular—is the operation of liberal democracy. Climate change threatens the future of civilization, but humanity is impotent in effecting solutions. Even in those nations with a commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions, they continue to rise. This failure mirrors those in many other spheres that deplete the fish of the sea, erode fertile land, destroy native forests, pollute rivers and streams, and utilize the world's natural resources beyond their replacement rate. In this provocative book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction—and climate change in particular—is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions bestow upon government—and its institutions, laws, and the markets and corporations that provide its sustenance—an inability to make decisions that could provide a sustainable society. Having argued that democracy has failed humanity, the authors go even further and demonstrate that this failure can easily lead to authoritarianism without our even noticing. Even more provocatively, they assert that there is merit in preparing for this eventuality if we want to survive climate change. They are not suggesting that existing authoritarian regimes are more successful in mitigating greenhouse emissions, for to be successful economically they have adopted the market system with alacrity. Nevertheless, the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. There are in existence highly successful authoritarian structures—for example, in medicine and in corporate empires—that are capable of implementing urgent decisions impossible under liberal democracy. Society is verging on a philosophical choice between liberty or life. But there is a third way between democracy and authoritarianism that the authors leave for the final chapter. Having brought the reader to the realization that in order to halt or even slow the disastrous process of climate change we must choose between liberal democracy and a form of authoritarian government by experts, the authors offer up a radical reform of democracy that would entail the painful choice of curtailing our worldwide reliance on growth economies, along with various legal and fiscal reforms. Unpalatable as this choice may be, they argue for the adoption of this fundamental reform of democracy over the journey to authoritarianism.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : David A. Raitzer,Francesco Bosello,Massimo Tavoni,Carlo Orecchia,Giacomo Marangoni,Jindra Nuella G. Samson
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789292573058

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Southeast Asia and the Economics of Global Climate Stabilization by David A. Raitzer,Francesco Bosello,Massimo Tavoni,Carlo Orecchia,Giacomo Marangoni,Jindra Nuella G. Samson Pdf

Climate change is a global concern of special relevance to Southeast Asia, a region that is both vulnerable to the effects of climate change and a rapidly increasing emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This study focuses on five countries of Southeast Asia that collectively account for 90% of regional GHG emissions in recent years---Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It applies two global dynamic economy–energy–environment models under an array of scenarios that reflect potential regimes for regulating global GHG emissions through 2050. The modeling identifies the potential economic costs of climate inaction for the region, how the countries can most efficiently achieve GHG emission mitigation, and the consequences of mitigation, both in terms of benefits and costs. Drawing on the modeling results, the study analyzes climate-related policies and identifies how further action can be taken to ensure low-carbon growth.

Author : Amanda Cats-Baril
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789176713242

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Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Constitutions Assessment Tool by Amanda Cats-Baril Pdf

The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Constitutions Assessment Tool helps users to analyse a constitution from the perspective of indigenous peoples’ rights. Using a series of questions, short explanations and example provisions from constitutions around the world, the Assessment Tool guides its users through the text of a constitution and allows for systematic analysis of the language and provisions of a constitutional text to assess how robustly indigenous peoples’ rights are reflected in it. A constitution articulates a vision that reflects a state’s values and history, as well as its aspirational objectives for the future. As the supreme law of a state, the constitution defines its structure and institutions, distributes political power, and recognizes and protects fundamental rights, critically determining the relationship between citizens and governments. Embedding in a constitution recognition of and rights-based protections for specific groups, such as indigenous peoples, can give these groups and their rights enhanced protection. This can be furthered by providing for specialized institutions and processes to deepen the realization of those rights in practice.

Author : Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108418126

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Governing Climate Change by Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster Pdf

World's foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896294257

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2022 Global food policy report: Climate change and food systems by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

Author : Michael Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952636132

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Making Hong Kong China by Michael Davis Pdf

How can one of the world's most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian control?As Beijing's anxious interference has grown, the "one country, two systems" model China promised Hong Kong has slowly drained away in the yearssince the 1997 handover. As "one country" seemed set to gobble up "two systems," the people of Hong Kong riveted the world's attention in 2019 by defiantly demanding the autonomy, rule of law and basic freedoms they were promised. In 2020, the new National Security Law imposed by Beijing aimed to snuff out such resistance. Will the Hong Kong so deeply held in the people's identity and the world's imagination be lost? Professor Michael Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in this city for over three decades, and has been one of its closest observers, takes us on this constitutional journey.

Author : Robin Mearns,Andrew Norton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821381423

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Social Dimensions of Climate Change by Robin Mearns,Andrew Norton Pdf

While major strides have been made in the scientific understanding of climate change, much less understood is how these dynamics in the physical enviornment interact with socioeconomic systems. This book brings together the latest knowledge on the consequences of climate change for society and how best to address them.

Author : P. R. Shukla
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 8173714711

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Climate Change and India by P. R. Shukla Pdf

Contributed articles on climate change.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations (Un)
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822041143207

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Asia and the Pacific by United Nations Pdf

"United Nations publication sales no E.14. II. F.6"--Title page verso.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004391

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The World in 2030 by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Björn-Ola Linnér,Victoria Wibeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108487474

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Sustainability Transformations Across Societies by Björn-Ola Linnér,Victoria Wibeck Pdf

A comparison of how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand agents and drivers of sustainability transformations.