Climate Futures : Reimagining Global Climate Justice
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| Title: | Climate Futures : Reimagining Global Climate Justice |
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| Description: | Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, or at a minimum, the most likely best-case world that we can get to, this book envisions planetary social movements robust enough to spark the necessary changes needed to achieve deeply sustainable and just economic, social, and political policies and practices.Bringing together insights from interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, creatives and activists, Climate Futures argues for the need to get past us-and-them divides and acknowledge how lives of creatures far and near, human and non-human, are interconnected. |
| Authors: | Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, Debashish Munshi |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Climatic changes--Social aspects, Climatic changes--Political aspects, Climatic changes |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, or at a minimum, the most likely best-case world that we can get to, this book envisions planetary social movements robust enough to spark the necessary changes needed to achieve deeply sustainable and just economic, social, and political policies and practices.Bringing together insights from interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, creatives and activists, Climate Futures argues for the need to get past us-and-them divides and acknowledge how lives of creatures far and near, human and non-human, are interconnected. |
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| ISBN: | 9781786997814 9781786997821 9781350369252 9781786997838 9781786997845 9781786997852 |
