Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental...

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David Ciplet (Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder) J. Timmons Roberts

Power in a Warming World

The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality

David Ciplet (Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder), J. Timmons Roberts, Mizan R. Khan , Frank Biermann (Research Professor, Utrecht University)

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MIT Press
04 September 2015

Global warming

Series: Power in a Warming World

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes.

After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change?

In Power in a Warming World, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan, bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers, and activists to bear on this urgent question. Combining rich empirical description with a political economic view of power relations, they document the struggles of states and social groups most vulnerable to a changing climate and describe the emergence of new political coalitions that take climate politics beyond a simple North-South divide. They offer six future scenarios in which power relations continue to shift as the world warms. A focus on incremental market-based reform, they argue, has proven insufficient for challenging the enduring power of fossil fuel interests, and will continue to be inadequate without a bolder, more inclusive and aggressive response.

By: David Ciplet (Assistant Professor University of Colorado Boulder), J. Timmons Roberts, Mizan R. Khan
Series edited by: Frank Biermann (Research Professor Utrecht University), Oran R. Young (Bren School of Environmental)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780262527941
ISBN 10: 0262527944
Series: Power in a Warming World
Pages: 342
Publication Date: 04 September 2015
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Ciplet is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University and coauthor of A Climate of Injustice (MIT Press). Mizan R. Khan is Professor of Environmental Science and Management at North South University in Bangladesh and author of Toward A Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime- A Proposed Framework.