The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-776209-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 712 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1352 g

Climate action encompasses all kinds of efforts to mitigate climate change. The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action examines diverse efforts globally, with chapters discussing activism or policy on every continent. The volume presents major theoretical perspectives and concrete strategies for addressing climate change in the twenty-first century.

The Handbook considers both noninstitutional and institutional forms of climate action. Contributors discuss the origins of climate activism as well as important achievements in raising public awareness, increasing participation, incorporating environmental justice, and implementing climate-friendly policies. They also demonstrate why nonconventional forms of collective action are necessary and effective when existing institutions fail to address planetary warming at an appropriate pace and level of urgency. Authors cover climate action planning, renewable energy systems, reforestation, carbon capture and storage technologies, nature-based climate solutions, and just economic transitions. The scholars also identify climate action within broader systems of race, class, gender, and colonialism.

Drawing from environmental science, sociology, political science, and anthropology, the Handbook gathers analyses and recommendations from an interdisciplinary field of specialists. The volume is thereby both comprehensive and accessible to students and scholars from various disciplines, making it a vital resource for anyone interested in the study of climate issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almeida, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Chapter 1: The Role of Environmental Threat in Motivating Climate Action

- Paul Almeida, Eliana Fonsah, and Luis Rubén González

- Part I: Theories of Climate Action

- Chapter 2: Ecologically Unequal Exchange as a Catalyst for Climate Action

- Andrew Jorgenson, Jennifer Givens, Xiaorui Huang, and Hassan El Tinay

- Chapter 3: World Society and Climate Action

- Kajol Patel and Kristen Shorette

- Chapter 4: Ecological Modernization Theory and Climate Action

- Keiichi Satoh

- Chapter 5: The Treadmill of Production Theory and Climate Action

- Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis

- Chapter 6: The Logics of Antiblackness and Coloniality in the Push for Climate (In)Action

- marilyn grell-brisk

- Chapter 7: Intersectional Climate Action

- Camila Alvarez and Kathryn Norton-Smith

- Chapter 8: "Overwhelming" Heat: Framing Racialized Communities as Climate Victims vs. Climate Warriors

- Alesia Montgomery and Marcos Magaña

- Part II: Non-Institutional Climate Action

- Chapter 9: The Emergence and Implications of the Global Climate Justice Movement Ecosystem

- Fernando Tormos-Aponte and Jackie Smith

- Chapter 10: The Drivers of Individual Participation in Climate Action

- Clare Saunders and Emily Rainsford

- Chapter 11: The Role of Emotions in Climate Activism

- Alice Poma and Tommaso Gravante

- Chapter 12: Fridays for Future: A New Wave of Global Climate Activism

- Katrin Uba

- Chapter 13: Beyond the Number: 350.org Origins and Lessons

- Will Bates, May Boeve, and Jamie Henn

- Chapter 14: Extinction Rebellion: The Emergence, Evolution, and Character of a Transnational Environmental Movement

- Tiago Carvalho and Peter Gardner

- Chapter 15: Environmentalism of the Poor and Climate Action

- Joan Martinez-Alier

- Chapter 16: Fossil Fuel Extraction Conflicts as Climate Action

- Moises Arce and Zoe Sullivan

- Chapter 17: Resistance to Fossil Fuel Extraction Projects in Africa as Climate Action

- Jesse Salah Ovadia

- Chapter 18: Global Indigenous Struggles and Climate Change Activism

- James V. Fenelon and Leonardo Figueroa Helland

- Chapter 19: Winning the Fossil Fuel Battle in Small-Town California

- Ingrid Brostrom and Caroline Farrell

- Chapter 20: Social Movements, Industries, and Renewable Energy

- Ion Bogdan Vasi

- Chapter 21: Refugees, Displaced Persons, or Economic Migrants? Climate-Related Migration and Implications for Migration Classificatory Systems

- Nicholas Tinoco and Cecilia Menjívar

- Part III: Institutionalized Climate Action I: Climate Action Planning

- Chapter 22: Climate Action Planning in International Perspective

- Benjamin Leffel

- Chapter 23: Green Energy Transitions as Climate Action?

- Kathryn Hochstetler

- Chapter 24: Toward Gender and Climate Justice: Women, Climate Action Projects for Accelerated Transition, and Transformative Change in the Global South

- Joyee Shairee Chatterjee, Sirayuth Thongprasert, Parimita Mohanty, and Joyashree Roy

- Chapter 25: Climate Diplomacy: Why It Remains So Intractable

- Mizan R. Khan and Farhana R. Khan

- Chapter 26: Climate Change Actions in the Sahel: A Look at Past Actions and Future Nature-Based Solutions

- Terence Epule Epule and Vincent Poirier

- Chapter 27: New Possibilities for Climate Action in East Asia? The Role of Non-State Actors in China, South Korea, and Japan

- Youngmin Oh and David A. Sonnenfeld

- Chapter 28: Climate Planning across Latin America

- Aldo Madariaga, Antoine Maillet, and Daniela Tapia

- Chapter 29: Climate Action in Central Asia

- Nygmet Ibadildin and Jamilya Ukudeeva

- Chapter 30: Subnational Climate Policy Action in the United States and Canada: Past Progress and Future Insufficiency

- Joshua A. Basseches

- Chapter 31: Climate Action in the Frame of the European Green Deal

- Jale Tosun

- Part IV: Institutionalized Climate Action II: The Search for Alternatives

- Chapter 32: Carbon Capture and Storage as Climate Action

- Xiaoliang Yang

- Chapter 33: The Challenges and Opportunities of Landscape Restoration in Latin America

- Francisco S. Álvarez

- Chapter 34: Labor and Just Transitions

- Jasmine Kerrissey and Victoria Coon

- Chapter 35: Youth Climate Action and Education: Children's Rights and Epistemic Justice

- Carrie Karsgaard

- Chapter 36: Enacting Transboundary Hydrocommons as a Pathway to Climate Action

- Ainhoa Montoya

- Part V: The Obstacles and Limits to Climate Action and the Road Ahead

- Chapter 37: Limits of Climate Action in the Gulf Petrostates

- Aisha Al-Sarihi

- Chapter 38: Climate Change Denial

- Déborah Barros Leal Farias

- Chapter 39: The Future of Climate Action

- Paul Almeida

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Almeida is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Systems at the University of California, Merced. Almeida's research centers on the efficacy of collective action at the local, national and global levels of social and political life. He has empirically examined the timing, distribution, and outcomes of dozens of large-scale campaigns whereby ordinary people and excluded social groups mobilized to protect themselves from the loss of vital necessities such as environmental quality, health care, pensions, water services/utilities, and other socio-economic rights. His recent work focuses on locally-based challenges and responses to climate change. Almeida serves as the Chair-Elect of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) section of the American Sociological Association.