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This book critically examines the prominence of natural science framing in mainstream climate change research, and demonstrates why climate change really is a social issue. The book highlights how assumptions regarding social and cultural systems that are common in sustainability science have impeded progress in understanding environmental and climate change. The author explains how social sciences theory and perspectives provide an understanding of institutional dynamics including issues of scale, possibilities for learning, and stakeholder interaction, using specific case studies to illustrate this impact. The book highlights the foundational role research into social, political, cultural, behavioural, and economic processes must play if we are to design successful strategies, instruments, and management actions to act on climate change.

CLIMATIC CHANGES--SOCIAL ASPECTS --- ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY

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Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide. Too often, those who have contributed least to climate change are the most likely to suffer from its negative consequences and are often excluded from the policy discussions and decisions that affect their lives.People and Climate Change pays particular attention to the social dimensions of climate change. It closely examines people's lived experience, climate-related injustice and inequity, why some groups are more vulnerable than others, and what can be done about it-especially through greater community inclusion in policy change. The book offers a diverse range of rich, community-based examples from across the "Global North" and "Global South" (e.g., sacrificial flood zones in urban Argentina, forced relocation of United Houma tribal members in the United States, gendered water insecurities in Bangladesh and Australia) while posing social and political questions about climate change (e.g., what can be done about the unequal consequences of climate change by questioning and transforming social institutions and arrangements ?). It serves as an essential resource for practitioners, policymakers, and undergraduate-/graduate-level educators of courses in environmental studies, social work, urban studies, planning, geography, sociology, and other disciplines that address matters of climate and environmental change

Climatic changes --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social justice. --- Environmental justice. --- Climatic changes - Social aspects

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Climatic changes / Economic aspects / Australia --- Climatic changes / Government policy / Australia --- Climatic changes / Social aspects / Australia

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Climate change is one of today's most important issues, presenting an intellectual challenge to the natural and social sciences. While there has been progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science research has not been as fully developed. This collection of essays breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting climate change as a thoroughly social phenomenon, embedded in our institutions and cultural practices.

Climatic changes -- Social aspects. --- Environmental sociology. --- Climatic changes --- Environmental sociology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Social aspects

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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and to examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore to what extent different nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change.

Climatic changes - Social aspects - Great Britain --- Climatic changes - Social aspects - Uganda --- Climatic changes - Social aspects - China --- Environmental justice --- Intergenerational relations --- Sociology, Urban - Great Britain --- Sociology, Urban - Uganda --- Sociology, Urban - China --- International relations. Foreign policy --- National consumption --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Social geography --- United Kingdom --- China --- Uganda --- Climatic changes --- Sociology, Urban --- Social aspects