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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Judith BlauPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138312302ISBN 10: 1138312304 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 30 July 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Climate Change: What It Is and Why It Matters. 2. Why Paris is Very, Very Important. 3. From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals to COP21 and the Paris Agreement. 4. What are Human Rights? 5. Food a Human Right? – Or Commercial Product? 6. The Peasant Farmers Were Right All Along. 7. How Bad Can It Get. 8. Rising Seas and Tiny Countries. 9. Proposals and Solutions. 10. We Are All in the Same Canoe. 11. Concluding Remarks. Appendix I. List of online resources for climate change. Appendix II. Reducing Our Own Carbon Footprint.ReviewsIt has considerable potential. The subjects of climate change and food are both popular subjects, especially among undergraduates. Author InformationJudith Blau is Professor Emerita in the sociology department at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and was director of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Human Rights Center, which provided programs and services for refugees and immigrants. She served on the board of the North Carolina American Civil Liberties and was president of Sociologists without Borders, an international nongovernment organization, and the Southern Sociological Society. She formerly edited Social Forces, and several of her past publications are about human rights, with others focusing on climate change, architecture, and race. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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