Standing up for a Sustainable World

Edited by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781800371774
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Science, society and a sustainable future , pp 3-9

Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern

Ch 2 Conservation psychology and climate change , pp 10-23

Susan Clayton

Ch 3 Capitalism and the curse of external effects , pp 24-46

Claude Henry

Ch 4 Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract , pp 48-58

Monica Araya

Ch 5 The carbon tax in Sweden , pp 59-67

Thomas Sterner

Ch 6 Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done , pp 68-75

Alice C. Hill

Ch 7 Climate policy in China: an overview , pp 76-102

Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern

Ch 8 The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? , pp 103-115

Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guérin

Ch 9 Introduction to Part II , pp 117-124

Jonathan Watts

Ch 10 To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest , pp 125-127

Maria do Socorro Costa Silva

Ch 11 Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines , pp 128-130

Bobby Chan

Ch 12 Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa , pp 131-133

Phyllis Omido

Ch 13 Living our values: using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey , pp 134-135

Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal

Ch 14 Introduction to Part III , pp 137-139

Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry

Ch 15 The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts , pp 140-150

Marjan Minnesma

Ch 16 Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate , pp 151-157

Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward

Ch 17 How policymakers imperil coming generations future and what to do about it , pp 158-162

Ridhima Pandey

Ch 18 Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon , pp 163-170

Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ã Ngel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano

Ch 19 Peoples Climate Case - families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis , pp 171-178

Gökşen Şahin

Ch 20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealands indigenous Mori peoples , pp 179-185

Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua

Ch 21 France: LAffaire du Sicle: the story of a mass mobilization for climate , pp 186-193

Marie Toussaint

Ch 22 Introduction to Part IV , pp 195-196

Claude Henry

Ch 23 Fridays For Future - FFF Europe and beyond , pp 197-211

Anuna De Wever Van der Heyden, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden

Ch 24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria , pp 212-218

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu

Ch 25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ , pp 219-231

Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder

Ch 26 350.org , pp 232-234

William “Bill†McKibben

Ch 27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? , pp 235-238

Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois

Ch 28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education could fall between two stools , pp 239-246

Alessia Lefébure

Ch 29 Introduction to Part V , pp 248-251

Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor

Ch 30 Catching mighty North Sea winds , pp 252-254

Claude Henry

Ch 31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India , pp 255-256

Claude Henry

Ch 32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings , pp 257-262

Dominique Bureau

Ch 33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones , pp 263-265

Claude Henry

Ch 34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia1 , pp 266-272

Pippo Ranci

Ch 35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one , pp 273-275

Geoffrey Heal

Ch 36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions , pp 276-279

Claude Henry

Ch 37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? , pp 280-284

Claude Henry

Ch 38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection , pp 285-287

Claude Henry

Ch 39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment , pp 288-292

Pippo Ranci

Ch 40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillels legacy , pp 293-295

Claude Henry

Ch 41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs , pp 296-298

Sébastien Treyer

Ch 42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? , pp 299-302

Sébastien Treyer

Ch 43 Ethan Brown - the protein revolutionary , pp 303-305

Geoffrey Heal

Ch 44 How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suru Indians in the Amazon rainforest – success under threat , pp 306-308

Claude Henry

Ch 45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages - Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano , pp 309-313

Pippo Ranci

Ch 46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development , pp 314-321

Michel Berry

Ch 47 Introduction to Part VI , pp 323-326

Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor

Ch 48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition , pp 327-340

Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik

Ch 49 The case for fossil fuel divestment , pp 341-350

Stephen B. Heintz

Ch 50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? , pp 351-359

Alain Grandjean

Ch 51 Chinas pioneering green finance , pp 360-368

Ma Jun

Ch 52 Introduction to Part VII , pp 370-375

Johan Rockström

Ch 53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences , pp 376-383

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Ch 54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses , pp 384-395

Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly

Ch 55 Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change , pp 396-400

François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux

Ch 56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination, emotion, action , pp 401-408

Genevieve Guenther

Ch 57 Climate change: from research to communication , pp 409-413

Jean Jouzel

Ch 58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics , pp 414-425

Georgina M. Mace

Ch 59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change , pp 426-432

Edward Maibach

Ch 60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution , pp 433-437

Michael E. Mann

Ch 61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower , pp 438-443

David R. Montgomery

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