Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 281 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780262376464
Content:
"The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward. Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the "long emergency" ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them assets rather than liabilities. Edited by David W. Orr, this vital collection of essays proposes a new political order that will not only help humanity survive but also enable us to thrive in the transition to a post–fossil fuel world. Orr gathers leading scholars, public intellectuals, and political leaders to address the many problems confronting our current political systems. Few other books have taken a systems view of the effects of a rapidly destabilizing climate on our laws and governance or offered such a diversity of solutions. These thoughtful and incisive essays cover subjects from Constitutional reform to participatory urban design to education; together, they aim to invigorate the conversation about the human future in practical ways that will improve the effectiveness of democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a more durable and just democracy."
Note:
Contributors: William J. Barber III, JD, William S. Becker, Holly Jean Buck, Stan Cox, Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars, Ann Florini, David H. Guston, Katrina Kuh, Gordon LaForge, Hélène Landemore, Frances Moore Lappé, Daniel Lindvall, Richard Louv, James R. May, Frederick W. Mayer, Bill McKibben, Michael Oppenheimer, David W. Orr, Wellington Reiter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Anne-Marie Slaughte
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Part 1. Democracy? -- Democracy -- It's Who We Are and What the Earth Needs -- No Decarbonization without Democratization: To Save the Climate, Open Democracy -- Can Democracy Safeguard the Rights of Future Generations? Climate Change and Intergenerational Injustice -- Part 2. Roadblocks. Our Urgency of Now: Converging Global Crises in a Time of Political Evolution -- Embracing Complexity: Democratic Governance in the Long Emergency -- Governing Science, Technology, and Innovation in Hotter Times -- Confronting Climate Change in Extremely Online Times -- Can a Global Revolution Save the Climate (and Democracy)? -- Part 3. Policy and Law. Breaking Policy Gridlocks -- Democracy in a Hotter Time: Can the Constitution Save the Planet? -- What We Don't Expect, What We Know but Ignore, What We Wrongly Assume, and What We Need to Do -- Part 4. Education for Uncommon Sense. Academe, Democracy, and Climate Change -- New America and the Landscape of Democracy -- Watering the Roots of Democracy
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-262-04859-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Klimakatastrophe
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Klimaschutz
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Umweltbewusstsein
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Demokratie
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Politische Reform
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Politik
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.7551/mitpress/15122.001.0001
Author information:
McKibben, Bill 1960-
Author information:
Robinson, Kim Stanley 1952-
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