Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia
$77.58
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2012
Summary
Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it.
Acting ‘from above’ are the most powerful forces; corporations and governments, both Labor and Coalition; with the media framing the issues. Climate movement actors ‘in the middle’ include the Australian Greens, major environmental and climate o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522861334 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522861334 |
| Author: | Verity Burgmann, Hans Baer |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Verity Burgmann
Verity Burgmann (Author)
Verity Burgmann is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the area of the history and politics of radical movements, both labour movements and new social movements such as the green movement. Her 11 books include Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Green Bans, Red Union (1998), Unions and the Environment (2002), Power, Profit and Protest (2003) and Changing the Climate (2011).
Hans A Baer (Author)
Hans A Baer, an anthropologist and development studies specialist at the University of Melbourne, has published 18 books and some 170 book chapters and journal articles on a variety of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical medical anthropology, and the Australian climate movement. He is the co-author, along with Merrill Singer, of Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (2009). Baer also authored Global Capitalism and Climate Change (2012).
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