Standing up for a sustainable world : voices of change /: voices of change. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, Nicholas Stern.
• Editors: Henry, Claude; Rockström, Johan; Stern, Nicholas
• Contents: 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 -- 22. Introduction to Part IV -- 23. Fridays For Future -- FFF Europe and beyond -- 24. The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria -- 25. The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ -- 26. 350.org -- 27. How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? -- 28. Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education could fall between two stools -- PART V Entrepreneurs 29. Introduction to Part V -- 30. Catching mighty North Sea winds -- 31. Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India -- 32. Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings -- 33. The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones -- 34. From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia -- 35. The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one -- 36. Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions -- 37. Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change?
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 462 pages)
• Subjects: 338.9/27; Sustainable development; Environmental economics; Sustainability; Environmental economics; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1800371780; 9781800371781
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2021).
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