Contemporary Climate Change Debates : A Student Primer (Hardcover)

Preface: Why and how to debate climate change Mike Hulme 1. Is Climate Change the Most Important Challenge of our Times? Sarah Cornell and Aarti Gupta PART 1: What do we Need to Know? 2. Is the Concept of ‘Tipping Point’ Helpful for Describing and Communicating Possible Climate Futures? Michel Crucifix and James Annan 3. Should Individual Extreme Weather Events be Attributed to Human Agency? Friederike Otto and Greg Lusk 4. Does Climate Change Drive Violence, Conflict and Human Migration? David Zhang and Qing Pei; Christiane Frohlich and Tobias Ide 5. Can the Social Cost of Carbon be Calculated? Reyer Gerlagh and Roweno Heijmans; Kozo Mayumi PART 2: What Should we do? 6. Are Carbon Markets the Best Way to Address Climate Change? Misato Sato and Timothy Laing; Mike Hulme 7. Should Future Investments in Energy Technology be Limited Exclusively to Renewables? Jennie Stephens and Gregory Nemet 8. Is it Necessary to Research Solar Climate Engineering as a Possible Backstop Technology? Jane C.S. Long and Rose Cairns PART 3: On what Grounds should we Base our Actions? 9.Is Emphasising Consensus in Climate Science Helpful for Policymaking? John Cook and Warren Pearce 10.Do Rich People rather than Rich Countries Bear the Greatest Responsibility for Climate Change? Paul G. Harris and Kenneth Shockley 11. Is Climate Change a Human Rights Violation? Catriona McKinnon and Marie-Catherine Petersmann PART 4: Who Should be the Agents of Change? 12. Does Successful Emissions Reduction Lie in the Hands of Non-State rather than State Actors? Liliana Andronova and Kim Coetzee 13. Is Legal Adjudication Essential for Enforcing Ambitious Climate Change Policies? Eloise Scotford; Marjan Peeters and Ellen Vos 14. Does the ‘Chinese Model’ of Environmental Governance Demonstrate to the World how to Govern the Climate? Tianbao Qin and Meng Zhang; Lei Liu and Pu Wang 15. Are New Social Media Making Constructive Climate Policymaking Harder? Mike S. Schafer and Peter North