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Global warming --- Climatic changes --- Government policy --- United States Climate Action Partnership.

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This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level climate action, spanning varied communities, places, spaces, agents and disciplines, demonstrating how the energy and dynamism of local scales are a powerful resource in turning the tide. Interconnected yet conceptually distinct, the book’s three sections span multiple levels of analysis, interrogating diverse perspectives and practices inherent to the vivid tapestry of climate action emerging locally, nationally and internationally. Delivered in collaboration with the UK’s ‘Place-Based Climate Action Network’, chapters are drawn from a wide range of authors with varying backgrounds spread across academia, policy and practice.

Central government policies --- Sociology --- Meteorology & climatology --- Environmental management --- Sustainability --- Geography --- Open Access --- climate change --- climate emergency --- praxis --- community --- theory --- practice --- climate action --- local climate praxis --- community engagement --- sustainable business models --- climate crisis --- community climate action

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A detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, observed their efforts in the laboratory to produce data from wood samples, and followed their discussions of a graph showing the fluctuations of the Scottish temperature over the past millennium in conferences, workshops and peer-review journals. This epistemography of climate change is of broad social and academic relevance - both for its contextualised treatment of a key contemporary science, and for its original formulation of a methodology for investigating and writing about expertise.

Climatic changes --- Research --- Climate action. --- Climate change. --- Climate science. --- Credibility. --- Dendroclimatology. --- Epistemography. --- Ethnography. --- Knowledge. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Social research methodology. --- Sociology.

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The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards. What is causing the increase in natural disasters and what effect does it have on the economy? Climate Change and Natural Disasters sends three messages: human-made factors exert a growing influence on climate-related disasters; because of the link to anthropogenic factors, there is a pressing need for climate mitigation; and prevention, including climate adaptation, ought not to be viewed as a cost to economic growth but as an investment. Ultimately, attention to climate-related disasters, arguably the most tangible manifestation of global warming, may help mobilize broader climate action. It can also be instrumental in transitioning to a path of low-carbon, green growth, improving disaster resilience, improving natural resource use, and caring for the urban environment. Vinod Thomas proposes that economic growth will become sustainable only if governments, political actors, and local communities combine natural disaster prevention and controlling climate change into national growth strategies. When considering all types of capital, particularly human capital, climate action can drive economic growth, rather than hinder it.

Climate change mitigation --- Climatic changes --- Natural disasters --- Environmental economics. --- Sustainable development. --- Economic aspects. --- Climate action --- Climate adaptation --- Climate change --- Climate mitigation --- Climate prevention --- Climate-related disasters --- Economy --- Global warming --- National growth strategies --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Climatic mitigation --- Mitigation of climate change --- Environmental protection --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Mitigation

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There is a growing recognition that rapid action in response to climate change is urgently necessary, and that many of the responsibilities for this action (e.g., relating to transport, land-use planning and economic development) rest at the local level. This is attested to by the growing number of local authorities that have declared climate emergencies across the globe. Responding to this emergency will require significant changes in the assumptions, expectations, priorities and procedures of locally elected representatives and government officials. This Special Issue will explore the responses of local government, as a key locus of sustainability governance, to the need for rapid climate action, drawing on examples from diverse locations (UK, western Europe, Chile and South Africa) and at various scales (from the smallest local areas, to city regions, counties and provinces).

Research & information: general --- climate change --- local government --- climate governance --- urban transport --- politics --- local climate action --- climate emergency --- phronesis --- practical wisdom --- crisis --- UK --- Paris Agreement --- carbon budgets --- transport --- governance --- carbon accounting --- scalar --- top-down --- bottom-up --- local governments --- critical infrastructure investment --- capacities --- political leadership attributes --- municipal organizational robustness --- Chile --- pop-up consultancy centre --- local authorities --- home renovation --- decentralised approach --- home-owner renovation journey --- business models --- multi-level governance --- informal settlements --- sanitation services --- institutional remaking --- n/a