| 书目名称 | Climate Change as Societal Risk | | 副标题 | Revealing Threats, R | | 编辑 | Mikael Granberg,Leigh Glover | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Develops a conceptual understanding of climate change as a societal risk.Connects the scholarly discourses in the risk, disaster and development literature to climate change discourse.Adds to the unde | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book analyzes climate change from a societal risk perspective, considering IPCC data, harm reduction, and global impact. Climate change is a globalised agent of social disruption whose impacts will worsen societal inequities and inequalities around the world. For some unfortunate societies already precariously exposed, climate change will tip them into societal collapse. Devastation will also occur to many ecological values in which all societies are embedded. But effective social action can limit the extent of these costs and losses. Ultimately, only social transformation can limit the social and environmental harms of climate change. But what does this mean? To what extent is society at risk? Are such risks particularized and restricted to specific segments and localities? Or is society at risk in a more universal way? Climate risks are re-shaping the practices of households, communities, governments and businesses. In this way, climate risks are a dynamic element in social change and social processes. Risk holds a mirror to society, revealing who and what is prioritized, recognized and valued. It also provides a reckoning of our perceived strengths, vulnerabilities and weak | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | environmental politics; climate change; societal risk; IPCC; Greenhouse gas emissions; GHG; emissions; Unit | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43961-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-43963-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-43961-2 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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