Hi all, I'm writing to announce a new book to consider as you prepare your syllabi for the fall:
*Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality* by David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan (MIT Press). Here's the overview: After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate’s destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change? In *Power in a Warming World*, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan, bring decades of combined experience as negotiators, researchers, and activists to bear on this urgent question. Combining rich empirical description with a political economic view of power relations, they document the struggles of states and social groups most vulnerable to a changing climate and describe the emergence of new political coalitions that take climate politics beyond a simple North-South divide. They offer six future scenarios in which power relations continue to shift as the world warms. A focus on incremental market-based reform, they argue, has proven insufficient for challenging the enduring power of fossil fuel interests, and will continue to be inadequate without a bolder, more inclusive and aggressive response. Please send me an email with your mailing address at [email protected] if you would like for the publisher to send you a desk copy of the book. The book is available for purchase from MIT Press (shipping on September 7th): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-warming-world and Amazon.com (shipping on September 11th): http://www.amazon.com/Power-Warming-World-Environmental-Inequality/dp/0262527944 . Here's the table of contents: Series Foreword vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix 1 Trading a Livable World 1 2 Power Shift 23 3 Beyond the North–South Divide? 53 4 Manufacturing Consent 75 5 The Politics of Adaptation 101 6 The Staying Power of Big Fossil 133 7 Society Too Civil? 155 8 Contesting Climate Injustice 181 9 Power in a Future World 205 10 Linking Movements for Justice 235 Notes 253 References 285 Index 319 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
