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Subject(s)

• Climatic changes—Economic aspects [Browse]
• Globalization [Browse]
• Sustainable development [Browse]

Series

• Globalization and the environment [More in this series]
• Globalization and the environment series [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies
• The capitalist world system and its contradictions
• The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions
• The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change
• Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change
• A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability
• Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms
• Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9780759121324 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 075912132X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780759121348 (ebook)
• 0759121346 (ebook)

LCCN

2012016730

OCLC

777602365

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