Climate and Society. Climate as Resource, Climate as Risk
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Author(s): N. Stehr and H. von Storch
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789814280532
Format: hardback
141pp
Price: £45.00
Review Date: 21 February 2010
Review: Anthropogenic (caused by humans) global climate change has been the centre of much discussion in recent years. Surveys show that the public in industrialized countries rank climate changes as the most important environmental danger; scientists appear alarmed and warn of imminent climate catastrophe. This book discusses these issues and attempts to put them in their political, cultural, economic and historical context. The five chapters cover: an overview of climate in all its different facets; a historical overview of social and political thinking about climate; climate as it would manifest itself without human interference; climate as risk and hazard; and a Zeppelin Manifesto (Nico Stehr is a professor at Zeppelin University, Germany), which spells out what is needed for the design of a balanced and efficient climate policy.