1st Edition

Reimagining Climate Change

Edited By Paul Wapner, Hilal Elver Copyright 2016
198 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response industry, or ‘Climate Inc.’, is failing. Reimagining Climate Change... Read more

1. Introduction: Reimagining Climate Change Paul Wapner  2. The Sociological Imagination of Climate Futures Matthew Paterson  3. Climate Security in the Anthropocene: ‘Scaling up’ the Human Niche Simon Dalby  4. Climate Change, Policy Knowledge, and the Temporal Imagination Richard Falk  5. Modernity on Steroids: The Promise and Perils of Climate Protection in the Arabian Peninsula Miriam Lowi  6. Overcoming Food Insecurities in an Era of Climate Change Hilal Elver  7. Reimagining Climate Engineering: The Politics of Tinkering with the Sky Simon Nicholson  8. Climate of the Poor: Suffering and the Moral Imperative to Reimagine Resilience Paul Wapner  9. Re-Imagining Radical Climate Justice John Foran   10. The Promise of Climate Fiction: Imagination, Story Telling, and the Politics of the Future Manjana Milkoreit

Biography

Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the School of International Service at American University, USA.

Hilal Elver is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Global Distinguished Fellow at the UCLA School of Law Resnick Food Law and Policy Program, USA.