Climate Change

What Must Be Done?
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-13071-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Many books explain why global warming is a problem; this book shows what must be done. It addresses central themes of climate change in straightforward terms, laying out the actions that need to be taken to slow global warming and adapt to the near and long-term future that we have created for ourselves.

Collecting knowledge, personal stories, and practical insights from experts across a dozen specialties, this volume shows how we can adapt to climate change in order to protect the most vulnerable among us. Grappling with a complex range of topics including risk, migration, and societal inequality, the authors take a constructive approach that balances realism with actionable solutions. They look back across human history for lessons that still matter today, particularly the importance of building a supportive and committed community to nourish hope. Without losing sight of the scale of the challenge, the volume chronicles the opportunities to mitigate environmental impacts and to leverage the challenge as impetus for broader transformations of society.

Written in an accessible, non-technical style, Climate Change: What Must Be Done? is a must-read for students, policymakers, and environmentally conscious individuals who want to know how to make a difference.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woo, Jaeha

Clayton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Daniel P. Schrag

Preface

Mary Ann Meyers

1. Introduction: Audacity

Jaeha Woo

2. Acceleration: Learning from the biggest mistake in my career as a climate scientist

Noah S. Diffenbaugh

3. Hope: Seeking climate responses that foster both personal and collective well-being

Katharine J. Mach

4. Risk: How the property insurance market can better convey the impacts of climate change

Kerry Emanuel

5. Anthropocene: How humanity created the current global environmental crisis, and how we can overcome it

Mark A. Maslin

6. Societal Transformations: Why climate action will take different forms in different cultures

Richard Potts

7. Adaptation: How to protect the most vulnerable from future climate emergencies

Michael Oppenheimer

8. Migration: The law in response to the injustice of climate displacement

Ama Ruth Francis

9. Resilience: Why combating societal inequality is central to climate action

Ilona M. Otto

10. Opportunities: How the green growth mindset can achieve big climate wins

Gernot Wagner

11. Deep Transformation: Repairing relations, remaking our world

Willis Jenkins

12. Conclusion: Action

Philip Clayton

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology, USA and the founding president of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. His more than two dozen written and edited books explore the intersections between science, philosophy, religion, and ethics. His science-based research and talks have focused on theoretical biology, the environmental sciences, and ecology.

Jaeha Woo is an Assistant Professor of philosophy of religion and general education at Evangelia University, USA. A specialist in the moral psychology of Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard, his work reflects on how people can sustain the motivation to persist in addressing global challenges such as climate change.