Too hot to handle? : the democratic challenge of climate change /

Through a comparative analysis of international climate polices, this book examines how we can build impactful democratic solutions to climate change and proposes practical ways forward for successfully translating the climate crisis into politics and policy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willis, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Endorsement
  • Too Hot To Handle?: The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One Introduction: Democracy on Hold?
  • The scientific consensus: urgent action is needed
  • The social consensus: not the most pressing problem
  • What lies ahead?
  • The background to this book: research theory and method
  • Two A Minute to Midnight: Governing the Planet
  • Spaceship Earth: can we take control of earth systems?
  • Governing the climate: from Kyoto to Paris and beyond
  • Governing the climate at national level
  • Democracy in crisis
  • Three The Energy Elephant
  • Technology to the rescue?
  • Power politics and vested interests
  • Will climate crises become political crises?
  • Four Dual Realities: Living with the Climate Crisis
  • Freaks and zealots? Climate change and the culture of politics
  • What about the voters?
  • 2019: a climate spring?
  • Cool dudes and catastrophists
  • Five Twenty Years of Climate Action
  • but Still Emissions Rise
  • Feelgood fallacies and stealth strategies
  • Economic policy and climate change
  • Local strategies for climate action
  • Energy policy without people
  • Six More, and Better, Democracy
  • Rethinking representation
  • Opening up to deliberation
  • A story of transformation
  • An appeal to the heart
  • Seven A Strategy for the Climate Emergency
  • Radicalism or pragmatism?
  • An upfront acknowledgement of the climate crisis
  • A clear strategy with democratic oversight
  • A transition away from fossil fuels and high-carbon systems
  • Linking to the international effort
  • A climate strategy checklist
  • Eight The Personal Is Political: How To Be a Good Climate Citizen
  • Speak out
  • Take to the streets
  • Think conversation, not monologue