Contemporary Climate Change Debates A Student Primer 1st Edition Mike Hulme 042982114X 9780429821141

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• ISBN 10: 042982114X
• ISBN 13: 9780429821141
• Author: Mike Hulme

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change. For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become effective learning devices for students. This book is organised around 15 important questions, and is split into four parts: What do we need to know? What should we do? On what grounds should we base our actions? Who should be the agents of change? Each debate is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format the book is designed to introduce students of climate change to different arguments prompted by these questions, and also provides a unique opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate amongst themselves.

Table of contents:

1. Is climate change the most important challenge of our times?

2. Is the concept of ‘tipping point’ helpful for describing and communicating possible climate futures?

3. Should individual extreme weather events be attributed to human agency?

4. Does climate change drive violence, conflict and human migration?

5. Can the social cost of carbon be calculated?

PART II: What should we do?

6. Are carbon markets the best way to address climate change?

7. Should future investments in energy technology be limited exclusively to renewables?

8. Is it necessary to research solar climate engineering as a possible backstop technology?

PART III: On what grounds should we base our actions?

9. Is emphasising consensus in climate science helpful for policymaking?

10. Do rich people rather than rich countries bear the greatest responsibility for climate change?

11. Is climate change a human rights violation?

PART IV: Who should be the agents of change?

12. Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors?

13. Is legal adjudication essential for enforcing ambitious climate change policies?

14. Does the ‘Chinese model’ of environmental governance demonstrate to the world how to govern the climate?

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