Climate change and poverty : a new agenda for developed nations /

Climate change and poverty : a new agenda for developed nations /

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Author / Creator:Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1966- author.
Imprint:Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developed countries.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Developed countries.
Climatic changes -- Developed countries.
Global temperature changes -- Social aspects -- Developed countries.
Global temperature changes -- Economic aspects -- Developed countries.
Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- Developed countries.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Developed countries.
Environmental policy -- Developed countries.
Poverty -- Environmental aspects.
Global temperature changes -- Economic aspects.
Environmental policy.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes.
Developed countries.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282052
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ISBN:9781447300885
1447300882
9781447311751
1447311752
9781447300878
1447300874
9781447354758
1447354753
9781447300861
1447300866
9781447311744
1447311744
Language / Script:Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution.
Other form:Print version: Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1966- Climate change and poverty. 9781447300878 1447300874
Standard no.:YBP12103406
Table of Contents:
  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND POVERTY; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Climate change and poverty: an ecosocial agenda; Social and natural interdependencies; Mapping injustice; Defining poverty; Three points; A further note about terminology; Synopsis; RETHINKING POVERTY:CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES; 1. Capabilities; Philosophy; Social policy; Environmentalism; Conclusion; 2. Resources; Assets; Ecological modernisation3; Beyond ecological modernisation?; Towards an ecosocial understanding of poverty; Poverty as an ecosocial category
  • Conclusion3. Spaces; Social policy; Environmental sociology; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Conclusion; 4. Times; Social policy; Sociology; Environmentalism; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Ecotemporal deprivation; Conclusion; 5. Summary; ECOSOCIAL POLICIES; 6. Energy and fuel poverty; Basic facts; Political solutions and prospects; From trade-offs to synergies?; An ecosocial consensus?; Conclusion; 7. Food and food poverty; Recent developments and prospects; Food policy and poverty; Natural environments and food11; Ecological public health; Two critical reflections; Conclusion
  • 8. Land: housing and urban densitiesHousing and poverty; Housing and the natural environment; Rent-seeking; Positional racing; Land value taxation; Conclusion; 9. Land: transport, flooding, waste; Transport, poverty and social exclusion; Transport and climate change; Flooding; Flood risk and insurance; Waste; Positional racing revisited; Conclusion; 10. Air and water; Introduction; Pollutants and health; Climate change; Knotted complexities; Air pollution and poverty; Solutions?; Water poverty; The atmospheric commons; Conclusion; Conclusion; References; Index

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