possibly of interest to some on gep-ed list . . . cheers, craig craig k harris department of sociology michigan agricultural experiment station national food safety and toxicology center institute for food and agricultural standards michigan state university http://www.msu.edu/~harrisc/
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max Boykoff Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:32 PM To: Climate Change Info Mailing List Subject: NEW BOOK - The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey Climate-L friends, I hope the material in this new edited volume makes it worth posting to the list. It is available starting today through Routledge/Europa. For those located in Universities, perhaps it would be best to put in a request to your University librarian to order a copy. Here is a link (also below) to do it: http://www.routledge.com/info/librarian.asp?isbn=978-1-85743-496-5&title=The%20Politics%20of%20Climate%20Change&author=Maxwell%20Boykoff This is the table of contents: Foreword - TIM O'RIORDAN Introduction - MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF The Politics of Climate Science - STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER AND MICHAEL D. MASTRANDREA The History of International Climate Change Politics: Three Decades of Progress, Process and Procrastination - HEIKE SCHROEDER The Politics of Interstate Climate Negotiations - CHUKWUMERIJE OKEREKE Protagonists in the Market of Climate Change Knowledge - HANS VON STORCH The Politics of the Carbon Economy - PETER NEWELL AND MATTHEW PATERSON The Politics of Adaptation Across Scales: The Implications of Additionality to Policy Choice and Development - MARIA CARMEN LEMOS AND EMILY BOYD Addressing Inequality and Building Trust to Secure a Post-2012 Global Climate Deal - BRADLEY C. PARKS AND J. TIMMONS ROBERTS Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Interactions in Everyday Spaces - MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF, MICHAEL K. GOODMAN AND IAN CURTIS Costly Knowledge-Unaffordable Denial: The Politics of Public Understanding and Engagement on Climate Change - SUSANNE C. MOSER A-Z GLOSSARY - MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF AND CHUKWUMERIJE OKEREKE 'Equity issues rightly remain at the forefront of the negotiations, and this volume provides several stimulating perspectives on important political aspects of the global climate negotiations.' -- Lord Nicolas Stern, IG Patel Chair and Director, LSE Asia Research Centre 'These essays on the politics of climate change provide timely and thoughtful insights into the theory and practice of climate science, climate politics, mitigation and adaptation. They are essential reading for those interested in international climate policy as well as the everyday cultural politics of public responses to climate change.' -- Professor Diana Liverman, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford November 2009: 234x156: 320pp Hb: 978-1-85743-496-5: £130.00 more information is located at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/publications/special/politics_climate_change/index.html -- Max Boykoff Assistant Professor CIRES Center for Science & Technology Policy Environmental Studies Program University of Colorado-Boulder 1333 Grandview Ave #201, Boulder, CO 80309, USA http://cires.colorado.edu/people/boykoff/
