Table of Contents
Editorial Foreword John Foster ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction: Looking for Hope between Disaster and Catastrophe Brian Heatley Rupert Read John Foster 1
Part I Politics 13
Chapter 1 Could Capitalism Survive the Transition to a Post-Growth Economy? Richard McNeill Douglas 15
Chapter 2 Facing Up to Climate Reality: International Relations as (Un)usual Peter Newell 35
Chapter 3 Making the Best of Climate Disasters: On the Need for a Localised and Localising Response Rupert Read Kristen Steele 53
Part II Systems 69
Chapter 4 Linking Cities and the Climate: Is Urbanisation Inevitable? Jonathan Essex 71
Chapter 5 Dealing with Extreme Weather Anne Chapman 93
Chapter 6 Geoengineering as a Response to the Climate Crisis: Right Road or Disastrous Diversion? Helena Paul Rupert Read 109
Part III Framings 131
Chapter 7 What the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages in Europe Can Tell Us about Global Climate Change Brian Heatley 133
Chapter 8 Facing Up to Ecological Crisis: A Psychosocial Perspective from Climate Psychology Nadine Andrews Paul Hoggett 155
Chapter 9 Where Can We Find Hope? John Foster 173
Coda-Where Next? John Foster, behalf of the Green House Collective 191
Bibliography 197
Sponsors 221
