The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy?

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy?
Author: Jon Naustdalslid
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2023-08-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031344715

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A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming. The failure of global climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions and halt climate change has led an increasing number of scientist and activists to lose confidence in democracy's ability to handle climate change and led them to look to more authoritarian measures to meet the problem. The book documents these trends, also from a historical perspective, criticize them and sketches more democratic alternatives.


The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy?
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Jon Naustdalslid
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-21 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming. The failure of global climate polic
Carbon Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Timothy Mitchell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-25 - Publisher: Verso Books

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“A brilliant, revisionist argument that places oil companies at the heart of 20th century history—and of the political and environmental crises we now face.
The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: David Shearman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction—and climate change in particular—is the ope
The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Larry J. Schweiger
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-15 - Publisher: Universal-Publishers

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There is only one earth and our world is undergoing dramatic changes brought on by the climate crisis and other human-induced ecological disruptions. The world'
Climate Change and Democracy: Insights from Asia and the Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Joo-Cheong Tham
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-02 - Publisher: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

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Democracy is on trial in the climate crisis. It is charged with having failed to prevent dangerous climate change. To its critics, the very same features of dem