1st Edition
The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change Public Understanding and Decision Making
By Christopher Shaw
Copyright 2016
152 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been... Read more
Introduction Part 1. Climate Change Narratives 1. The stories we tell about climate change 2. Two Degrees and the environmental limits 3. Critical discourse analysis of climate change narratives Part 2 Defining dangerous climate change 4. The science of the two degree limit 5. Do public narratives reflect the science? 6. Who loses in a two degree world Part 3 The future of the two degree limit 7. What next for two degrees? 8. Climate change - the terminus of modernity? Conclusion
Biography
Christopher Shaw is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK.
