THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Book ID/图书代码： 10963010B35358

English Summary/英文概要： Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a ’back of the mind’ issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Politicians have woken up to the dangers, but at the moment their responses are mainly on the level of gesture rather than being, as they have to be, both concrete and radical.

Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues controversially, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics-as-usual won’t allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.

This book is likely to become a classic in the field. It will be of appeal to everyone concerned about how we can cope with what amounts to a crisis for our civilisation.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《第三條路》作者紀登斯力作

氣候變遷與環境惡化的速度超乎人類想像，並在各個層面對全球所有國家產生巨大影響。
紀登斯認為解決之道在於︰首先得將氣候變遷這項議題納入日常生活之中；其次，則是要避免政治上的兩極化，即支持與反對的嚴重對立︰並提供企業、消費者與政治領袖足夠的誘因；最後，氣候變遷問題需納入地緣政治的討論範圍之內。
紀登斯提出一系列解決氣候變遷問題的建議，深度考察氣候變化與能源安全之間的關聯。紀登斯這本著作勢必將成為這個領域的經典文本，提供人類在面對這項重大危機的重要參考座標。(KC)

Sarah Dodgson回复SR说此书的简体他们已经卖了-汪斐2011-3-31

Awards/获奖情况："A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America (美國前任總統柯林頓：所有人都應該讀讀這本重要著作！)

Review
"Giddens’ is a simple message, argued with great clarity and power, that brings a new dimension to the debate."---Book of the week in the Times Higher Education

"A very useful introduction to the issues, and crucially shifts the focus away from targets and environmentalist frames towards the substance of economic and energy security interests, technology, state intervention and the limitations of the formal international climate negotiations." ---Public Policy Research

"As well as providing a useful summary of a number of current debates in climate change policy - from the robustness of carbon markets and green taxes through to the role of government in fostering new technological solutions - Giddens makes a powerful contribution to the emerging debate."---Progress

"The Politics of Climate Change stands out in the crowded terrain of climate change publications by placing politics - rather than science or economics - at the center of the analysis ... there is much to recommend this book. It is up to date, with discussions of the recent global financial crisis and the change of leadership in the US. It takes a multilevel governance perspective on climate change governance and attempts to think about how the various components relate to one another. The book is accessible for the nonspecialist, making it appropriate for use in the classroom."---Environment and Planning C

"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

"In challenging the standard criteria used by policy-makers to think about climate change, and by offering an alternative set, Giddens shows how a real national and European debate can finally occupy the political foreground."---Times of Malta

"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

About the Author/作者介绍： 安東尼·紀登斯（Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens，1938年1月18日－）英國社會學家。以他的結構理論（theory of structuration）與對當代社會的本體論（holistic view）而聞名。
他被認為是當代社會學領域中有卓越貢獻的學者之一，他寫了至少34本著作，被以至少29種語言發行。他被描述為自凱恩斯以來最有名的社會科學學者。
安東尼·紀登斯與布萊爾提倡的「第三條路」（Third Way）政策影響英國甚至我國的政策走向。

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