ISBN:
9781800371781
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 462 Seiten)
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DDC:
338.927
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: a collective book project - the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Introduction -- Section 1 Scientific backgrounds -- 1. Science, society and a sustainable future -- 2. Conservation psychology and climate change -- 3. Capitalism and the curse of external effects -- Section 2 Setting the scene -- 4. Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract -- 5. The carbon tax in Sweden -- 6. Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done -- 7. Climate policy in China: an overview -- 8. The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? -- PART II Defenders -- 9. Introduction to Part II -- 10. To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest -- 11. Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines -- 12. Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa -- 13. Living our values: using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey -- PART III Litigants -- 14. Introduction to Part III -- 15. The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts -- 16. Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate -- 17. How policymakers imperil coming generations' future and what to do about it -- 18. Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon -- 19. People's Climate Case - families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis -- 20. Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand's indigenous Māori peoples -- 21. France: L'Affaire du Siècle: the story of a mass mobilization for climate -- PART IV Coming generations on the front line.
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