Climate Emergency

This book analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies create the crisis and are challenged by it; the development of inequalities within and between countries are at the heart of generating the emergency and in obstructing its resolution.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He has developed a comparative and historical approach to economic sociology across many fields, undertaking primary research in Europe, Latin America, China, India and the USA.

Zusammenfassung

This book analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies create the crisis and are challenged by it; the development of inequalities within and between countries are at the heart of generating the emergency and in obstructing its resolution.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Harvey, Mark (University of Essex Harvey
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781800433335
• ISBN: 978-1-80043-333-5
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 276 g
• Serie: SocietyNow
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien