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The politics of climate change
Title The politics of climate change / Anthony Giddens Author Giddens, Anthony, 1938- (Author) Issue 1st ed. Publication Cambridge ; Malden : Polity press, 2009 Scope viii, 264 s. : il. ; 24 cm Country United Kingdom ; United States Language English Note Obsah: Acknowledgements--Introduction--1 Climate Change and Energy Security--2 International Negotiations, the EU and Carbon Markets--3 The Greens and After --4 The State and Governance--5 Technologies and Taxes-- 6 A Return to Planning?--7 The Politics of Adaptation --8 The Geo-Politics of Climate Change Obsahuje bibliografii a rejstřík Annotation "Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a 'back of the mind' issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Politicians have woken up to the dangers, but at the moment their responses are mainly on the level of gesture rather than being, as they have to be, both concrete and radical.Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues controversially, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics-as-usual won't allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.This book is likely to become a classic in the field. It will be of appeal to everyone concerned about how we can cope with what amounts to a crisis for our civilisation."--Cover Výrazy tezauru změna klimatu * vládní politika * energetická politika * mezinárodní bezpečnost Klasifikační znaky 5211 - Přírodní prostředí 6606 - Energetická politika 0436 - Výkonná moc a státní správa ISBN 978-0-7456-4692-3 Copy count 1, currently available 1 URL The politics of climate change (obsah a náhled do publikace / Google Books) Document kind Monografie 
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