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| Author(s): | K. O'Brien, A. L. St Clair and B. Kristoffersen |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521197663 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 231pp | |
| Price: | £70.00, $120.00 |
| Review Date: | 12 August 2010 |
| Review: | This book is a result of the workshop on Shifting Discourse: Climate Change as an Issue of Human Security held in June 2007. The contributors argue that a more integral understanding of the problem and solutions associated with climate change can only be achieved by developing a ‘new science’ on climate change, a science that recognises that the drivers and consequences of climate change go beyond what can be measured by econometrics and statistics. The key causes of climate change are primarily social and the grave consequences will also be social. Climate change is as much an ethical issue as a scientific one. The ten papers in the book are divided into three parts: Framings, Equity, Ethics, and Reflexivity, and are from authors from the UK, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, South Africa, Norway and the USA. |