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"The rapidly growing climate movement will benefit from this compendium of timely introspection-on-the-go, aswe try to figure outhowto do whatwe do more effectively!" (BillMcKibben, PresidentandCo-Founderof350.org,USA) "This handbook is an extremely valuable overview and analysisofthe global climate change movement. Itshows the range and complexityofthis movement, and provides unique insights into its structure, goals, and future prospects. It sets a high standard for future scholarship to meet." (RobertJ. Brulle, ProfessorofSociologyandEnvironmental Sdence, DrexelUniversity, USA) Thispageintentionallyleftblank ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT This handbookprovidesacomprehensiveoverviewofthe growingtransnationalclimate move ment.Adualfocus on climate politics and civilsociety providesahithertounavailable broadand systematic analysisofthe current global movement, highlighting how its dynarnic and diverse charactercan playan importantrole in environmentalpolitics and climate protection. The range ofcontributors, from well-known acadernics to activist-scholars, look at climate movements in the developed and developing world, north and south, small and large, central and marginal. The movementisexarninedasawhole and assingle actors, thereby capturingits scope, structure, development, activities, and influence. Thebookthoroughly addressestheor eticalapproaches, from classicsocialmovementtheoryto the influenceofenvironmentaljustice frames, and follows this with a systematic focus on regions, specific NGOs and activists, cases and strategies, aswell asrelations withperipheralgroups. Initsbreadth,balance, and depth, this accessiblevolumeoffersafreshand importanttake on the question of social mobilization around climate change, making it an essential text for advancedundergraduates, postgraduatestudents, and researchers in the socialsciences. Matthias Dietzisapoliticalscientistatthe Centrefor SocialPolicyResearchatthe University ofBremen, Germany. Heiko Garrelts isa political scientist at the Research Centre for Sustainability Studies at the UniversityofBremen, Gerrnany. Thispageintentionallyleftblank ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT Edited byMatthias DietzandHeiko Garrelts I~ ~~o~;~;n~~;up ~~r;D[j]~~~ru frorn Routledge LONDONANDNEWYORK Firstpublished2014 byRoutledge 2Park Square, MiltonPark,Abingdon, OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor& FrancisGroup, aninformabusiness ©2014Matthias DietzandHeikoGarrelts Theright ofMatthias DietzandHeikoGarreltstobe identifiedasauthors ofthe editorial material, andofthe individualauthors asauthors oftheircontributions,has beenassertedbytheminaccordancewithsections 77and78ofthe Copyright,Designs andPatents Act 1988. Allrightsreserved. Nopart ofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilizedin anyform orbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafter invented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorage or retrieval system,withoutpermissioninwritingfrom thepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Acatalogue recordforthisbookisavailablefrom theBritish Library LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Routledgehandbookofthe climate changemovement/ editedbyMatthias Dietzand HeikoGarrelts. pagescm.- (Routledgeinternationalhandbooks) Includes bibliographicalreferences andindex. 1.Climaticchanges-Politicalaspects.2.Global warming-Politicalaspects.3.Climate change mitigation-Politicalaspects.4.Greenmovement.5.Environmentalism. 6.Civil society. 7.Climaticchanges-Socialaspects.8.Globalwarming-Socialaspects.9.Climate change mitigation-Socialaspects.1.Dietz, Matthias. II. Garrelts,Heiko. III.Title: Handbookofthe climate changemovement. QC903.R692014 363.738'74-dc23 2013024886 ISBN: 978-0-415-83925-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-77353-6(ebk) TypesetinBembo byWearsetLtd,Boldon,TyneandWear CONTENTS Listcifillustrations Xl Listcifcontributors XlI Listcifabbreviations xv 1 Introduetion: eontours ofthe transnational elimate movement- eoneeption and eontents ofthe handbook 1 HeikoGarrelts andMatthias Dietz PART I Theoreticalprospectsoftheclimate movement 17 2 Frarningproeesses in the elimate movement: from elimate ehange to elimatejustiee 19 Donatella della Porta andLouisa Parks 3 Demoeratizingthe climate negotiations system through improved opportunities for partieipation 31 Melanie MüllerandHeike Walk 4 Antagonistie standpoints: the climatejustiee eoalition viewed in light ofa theory ofsoeietalrelationships with nature 44 Philip BedallandChristoph Görg 5 The climatejustiee movementand the hegemonie diseourse ofteehnology 66 VitoDeLucia 6 Climatejustieefrom the perspeetive ofphilosophy 84 Andreas Niederberger vii Contents PART11 Componentsofthe c1imatemovement 105 Regionalclimate movements 7 The green movementin Britain 107 Elaine Graham-Leigh 8 The climate movementin Germany 117 Georg Kössler 9 Movements for climate justicein the US and worldwide 131 Brian Tokar 10 TheAustralian climate movement: a disparate response to climate change and climate politics in anot so 'lucky country' 147 HansBaer 11 Out ofthe forest - the climate movementin Brazil 163 Dörte Segebart andClaudia König 12 India - the longmarch to a climate movement 179 AmeHarms andOliverPowalla 13 China's emergingclimate change movement- finding aplace to stand 194 Patrick Schroeder 14 Climatejusticein, by, and for Africa 205 Patrick Bond Leadingfigures 15 Activist profile- Bill McKibben 222 HansBaer 16 Activist profile- Naomi Klein 224 Matthias Dietz 17 Activist profile- James Hansen 226 HansBaer 18 Activist profile- Al Gore 228 HansBaer viii Contents Popularactivists 19 Activist profile- TimDeChristopher 231 Matthias Dietz 20 Activist profile- Anna Rose 233 HansBaer 21 Activist profiles - David Spratt and Philip Sutton 235 HansBaer International NGOs andnetwork organizations 22 Organizationprofile- Climate Action Network International 237 HeikoGarrelts 23 Organizationprofile- ClimateJustice Now! 240 Matthias Dietz 24 Organizationprofile- LaVia Campesina 243 Matthias Dietz 25 Organizationprofile- Friends ofthe Earth International 245 Johannes Kruse 26 Organizationprofile- Climate Alliance 248 HeikoGarrelts Climate NGOsfromtheUS 27 Organizationprofile- 350.org 252 Brian Tokar 28 Organizationprofile- Rising Tide 255 Brian Tokar 29 Organizationprofile- EnergyAction Coalition 258 Brian Tokar Climate NGOsfromEurope 30 Organizationprofile- Plane Stupid 260 HeikoGarrelts ix
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