The Politics of Climate Change

"Giddens' is a simple message, argued with great clarity and power, that brings a new dimension to the debate."
　　Andrew Gamble, Times Higher Education
　　"How do you create, maintain and renew majorities that encourage people, organisations and institutions to behave responsibly and well, especially when they have become accustomed to behaving irresponsibly and badly? This key question ... underlies everything in Anthony Giddens' important new book, The Politics of Climate Change. Giddens is clear that politicians make things worse by the tactic - much used by Brown in the economic field too - of simultaneously dramatising the threat and then pretending to have the unique measure of it, as the G20 may show."
　　Martin Kettle, The Guardian
　　"The prospect of disruptive climate change should be high on the international agenda: it raises issues of politics, economics and equity that are even more complex than the science. This balanced and comprehensive assessment by a distinguished author should be widely read by politicians and policymakers."
　　Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
　　"An incisive and highly original contribution."
　　Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
　　Table of Contents
　　Acknowledgements.
　　Introduction.
　　Chapter One: Climate Change and Energy Security.
　　Chapter Two: International Negotiations, the EU and Carbon Markets.
　　Chapter Three: The Greens and After.
　　Chapter Four: The State and Governance.
　　Chapter Five: Technologies and Taxes.
　　Chapter Six: A Return to Planning?.
　　Chapter Seven: The Politics of Adaptation.
　　Chapter Eight: The Geo-Politics of Climate Change