Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement: (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play an important role in environmental politics and climate protection. The range of contributors, from well-known academics to activist-scholars, look at climate movements in the developed and developing world, north and south, small and large, central and marginal. The movement is examined as a whole and as single actors, thereby capturing its scope, structure, development, activities and influence. The book thoroughly addresses theoretical approaches, from classic social movement theory to the influence of environmental justice frames, and follows this with a systematic focus on regions, specific NGOs and activists, cases and strategies, as well as relations with peripheral groups. In its breadth, balance and depth, this accessible volume offers a fresh and important take on the question of social mobilization around climate change, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Contours of the International Climate Movement - Conception and Contents of the Handbook Part 1 Theoretical Prospects of the Climate Movement 2. Framing Processes in the Climate Movement: from Climate Change to Climate Justice 3. Democratizing the Climate Negotiations System through Improved Opportunities for Participation 4. Antagonistic Standpoints: The Climate Justice Coalition Viewed in Light of a Theory of Societal Relationships with Nature 5. The Climate Justice Movement and the Hegemonic Discourse of Technology 6. Climate Justice from the Perspective of Philosophy Part 2 Components of the Climate Movement 7. The Green Movement in Britain 8. The Climate Movement in Germany 9. Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide 10. The Australian Climate Movement: A disparate response to climate change and climate politics in a not so ‘lucky country’ 11. The Climate Movement in Brazil – Professionalism and Ideological Differences Dörte Segebart und Claudia König 12. India – The long march to a climate movement 13. China's Emerging Climate Change Movement – Finding a Place to Stand 14. Climate Justice In, By and For Africa 15. Activist Profile Bill McKibben 16. Activist Profile Naomi Klein 17. Activist Profile James Hansen 18. Activist Profile Gore Popular Activists 19. Activist Profile Tim DeChristopher 20. Activist Profile Anna Rose 21. Activist Profiles David Spratt und Phillip Sutton International NGOs and Network Organizations 22. Organization Profile Climate Action Network International 23. Organization Profile Climate Justice Now! 24. Organization Profile La Via Campesina 25. Organization Profile Friends of the Earth International 26. Organization Profile Climate Alliance Climate NGOs from the US 27. Organization Profile 350.org 28. Organization Profile Rising Tide 29. Organization Profile Energy Action Coalition Climate NGOs from Europe 30. Organization Profile Plane Stupid 31. Organization Profile Germanwatch Part 3 Arenas, Activities and Development of the Climate Movement 32. Between Pragmatism and Radicalization. NGOs and Social Movements in International Climate Politics 33. Re-Framing Climate Change: The Cochabamba Conference and Global Climate Politics 34. Debates and Conflicts in the Climate Movement 35. Small Island States and the new Climate Change: the Case of Kiribati 36. Ambivalent involvement: Civil-Society Actors in Forest Carbon Offsets. The case of the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standards (CCB) 37. In the Periphery of the Climate Movement – Humanitarian Organizations 38. Conclusion: Results of the Handbook - State, Influence and Future of the Climate Movement

About the Author :
Matthias Dietz is a political scientist at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Germany. Heiko Garrelts is a political scientist at the Research Centre for Sustainability Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.     The cover photo was taken by Toben Dilworth.

Review :
The rapidly growing climate movement will benefit from this compendium of timely introspection-on-the-go, as we try to figure out how to do what we do more effectively! -Bill McKibben, President and Co-Founder of 350.org, USA This handbook is an extremely valuable overview and analysis of the global climate change movement. It shows the range and complexity of this movement, and provides unique insights into its structure, goals, and future prospects. It sets a high standard for future scholarship to meet. -Robert J. Brulle, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science, Drexel University, USA