Climate Change and Society
This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour is economics.By contrast Climate Change and Society tries to place the 'social' at the heart of both the analysis of climates and of the assessment of alternative futures. It demonstrates the importance of social practices organised into systems. In the fateful twentieth century various interlocking high carbon systems were established. This sedimented high carbon social practices, engendering…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-5037-1
- EAN: 9780745650371
- Produktnummer: 19360175
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.6 cm 346 g
- Gewicht: 346
Über den Autor
John Urry is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.
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