Organising Responses To Climate Change

Author : Daniel Nyberg,Christopher Wright,Vanessa Bowden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009266925

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Organising Responses to Climate Change by Daniel Nyberg,Christopher Wright,Vanessa Bowden Pdf

Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impacts of climate change can be avoided.

Author : Simin Davoudi,Jenny Crawford,Abid Mehmood
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849770156

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Planning for Climate Change by Simin Davoudi,Jenny Crawford,Abid Mehmood Pdf

This resource provides authoritative guidance for spatial planners on how to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional development. It brings together some of the recent research and scholarly works on the role of spatial planning in combating climate change.

Author : Christopher Wright,Daniel Nyberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316409329

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Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations by Christopher Wright,Daniel Nyberg Pdf

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of 'business as usual'. The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk, corporate climate politics, the role of justification and compromise, and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students, this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.

Author : Simin Davoudi,Jenny Crawford,Abid Mehmood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136574009

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Planning for Climate Change by Simin Davoudi,Jenny Crawford,Abid Mehmood Pdf

Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities. This book sets out the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional planners and explores current and potential responses. These are set within the context of recent research and scholarly works on the role of spatial planning in combating climate change. Addressing both mitigation measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the effects of climate change, the book provides an overview of emerging practice, with analysis of the drivers of policy change and practical implementation of measures. It scopes planning issues and opportunities at different spatial scales, drawing on both the UK and international experiences and highlighting the need to link global and local responses to shared risks and opportunities.

Author : Robert G. Watts
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1566702348

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Engineering Response to Global Climate Change by Robert G. Watts Pdf

This book goes beyond the analysis offered by typical works on this subject to propose real solutions to problems caused by changes in the earth's climate. From new ways to cut energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to discussions of the possibilities of sea walls and climate-altering technologies, Engineering Response to Global Climate Change presents new conceptual tools and suggests research necessary for correcting and alleviating problems caused by global warming. Engineers are just now being asked to consider the problems of climate change and the possible technological responses. This complete reference covers the whole range of potential impacts of climate change and their engineering solutions. Of special interest is the chapter on geoengineering, which suggests how engineers may someday be able to intervene in planetary processes to reduce the effects of global warming. Edited by a regional director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change and offering the collective expertise of a team of expert authors, each renowned in his or her field, this book offers thorough coverage of this important topic from an engineering and technology perspective.

Author : Nardia Haigh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351016339

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Scenario Planning for Climate Change by Nardia Haigh Pdf

Climate change, and the resultant impact on resource management and societal wellbeing, is one of the greatest challenges facing businesses and their long-term performance. Uncertainty about access to resources, unanticipated weather events, rapidly changing market conditions and potential social unrest is felt across all business and industry sectors. This book sets out an engaging step-by-step scenario-planning method that executives, Board members, managers and consultants can follow to develop a long-term strategy for climate change tailored for their business. Most climate change strategy books discuss climate mitigation only, focusing on how companies engage with carbon policy, new technologies, markets and other stakeholders about reducing carbon emissions. This book explores these themes but also looks at strategizing for climate change adaptation. Adaptation is equally important, especially given that companies cannot negotiate with nature. There is a need to interpret climate science for business in a way that acknowledges the realities of climate change and identifies a way forwards in responding to this uncertain future.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309160322

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Facilitating Climate Change Responses by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences Pdf

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate change, called on the National Research Council to organize two workshops to showcase some of the decision-relevant contributions that these sciences have already made and can advance with future efforts. The workshops focused on two broad areas: (1) mitigation (behavioral elements of a strategy to reduce the net future human influence on climate) and (2) adaptation (behavioral and social determinants of societal capacity to minimize the damage from climate changes that are not avoided). Facilitating Climate Change Responses documents the information presented in the workshop presentations and discussions. This material illustrates some of the ways the behavioral and social sciences can contribute to the new era of climate research.

Author : Wreford Anita,Moran Dominic,Adger Neil
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264086876

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Climate Change and Agriculture Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation by Wreford Anita,Moran Dominic,Adger Neil Pdf

This report examines the economic and policy issues related to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation responses and to the mitigation of greenhouse gases from agriculture.

Author : GI Pearman
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643105744

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Greenhouse: Planning for Climate Change by GI Pearman Pdf

It is important for the reader to understand clearly the objectives of these papers. They are not an attempt to provide accurate predictions of what is going to happen in Australia over the next few decades. Rather they represent sensitivity studies, designed to illustrate to what extent we as a nation are dependent on the climate and likely to be affected by climatic change, and attempts to develop the techniques for such sensitivity analyses. For this, the climate scenario (reproduced in the Appendix to this volume), was a key.

Author : Hubert Heinelt,Wolfram Lamping
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317206521

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Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change by Hubert Heinelt,Wolfram Lamping Pdf

Since the 1990s ‘beliefs’, ‘ideas’ or ‘knowledge’ as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution to this scholarly debate and will be of interest to practitioners, showing on one side how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed the urban agenda and on the other how different the responses of cities to this global challenge are – and how these differences between cities can be explained. This book was previously published as a special issue of Urban Research and Practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1851127151

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The Planning Response to Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Wilson,Jake Piper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136934957

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Spatial Planning and Climate Change by Elizabeth Wilson,Jake Piper Pdf

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation for the future. This text includes: an overview of what we know already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which cause them the role of spatial planning in relation to climate change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades a review of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the planning system case studies detailing what responses the UK and the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence ways to help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or loss of biodiversity. The authors take an evidence-based look at this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning, geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies students.

Author : Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351201094

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Planning for Climate Change by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan Pdf

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions.

Author : Bruce C. Glavovic,Gavin P. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401786317

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Adapting to Climate Change by Bruce C. Glavovic,Gavin P. Smith Pdf

This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing States. The lessons are grouped according to four imperatives: (i) Develop collaborative governance networks; (ii) build adaptive capabilities; (iii) invest in pre-event planning; and (iv) the moral imperative to undertake adaptive actions that advance resilience and sustainability. "A theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of the interface between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, comprehensive yet accessible, and very timely." Mark Pelling, Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK. "This book represents a major contribution to the understanding of natural hazards planning as an urgent first step for reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change to ensure sustainable and equitable development." Sálvano Briceño, Vice-Chair, Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk IRDR, an ICSU/ISSC/ISDR programme. Former Director International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UNISDR. “What a welcome addition to the young literature on climate adaptation and hazard mitigation! Bruc e Glavovic and Gavin Smith each bring to the editing task a rare blend of solid scholarly attainment and on-the-ground experience that shines through in this extensively-documented synthesis of theoretical ideas from the realms of climate and hazards and their validation in a rich set of diverse case studies pulled in from around the world. This book should remain a classic for many years.” William H. Hooke, American Meteorological Society.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264054766

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Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation: Policy Guidance by OECD Pdf

This book provides essential information and advice on how to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into development processes.