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Author:   Paul G. Harris
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780857931603

ISBN 10:   0857931601
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 July 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Climate Change Policy Paul G. Harris 2. Climate Justice as Globalized Responsibility: Mitigation, Adaptation and Avoiding Harm to Others Steve Vanderheiden 3. Climate Change and the Cosmopolitan Responsibility of Individuals: Policy Vanguards Nigel Dower 4. Individual Responsibility and Voluntary Action on Climate Change: Activating Agency Jennifer Kent 5. Cosmopolitan Solutions 'From Below': Climate Change, International Law and the Capitalist Challenge Romain Felli 6. Sharing the Burdens of Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Qualified Cosmopolitanism Michael W. Howard 7. Cosmopolitanism and Hegemony: The United States and Climate Change Robert Paehlke 8. Overcoming the Planetary Prisoners' Dilemma: Cosmopolitan Ethos and Pluralist Cooperation Philip S. Golub and Jean-Paul Marechal 9. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and the Climate Change Regime: Moving Beyond International Doctrine Paul G. Harris Index

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’We've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are.’ -- Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UK

`We've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are.' -- Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UK

'We've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are.' - Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UK

Author Information

Edited by Paul G. Harris, Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong and Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance global research alliance

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