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Author Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1966- author.

Title Climate change and poverty : a new agenda for developed nations / Tony Fitzpatrick.

Publication Info. Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages .)
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Contents CLIMATE CHANGE AND POVERTY; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Climate change and poverty: an ecosocial agenda; Social and natural interdependencies; Mapping injustice; Defining poverty; Three points; A further note about terminology; Synopsis; RETHINKING POVERTY:CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES; 1. Capabilities; Philosophy; Social policy; Environmentalism; Conclusion; 2. Resources; Assets; Ecological modernisation3; Beyond ecological modernisation?; Towards an ecosocial understanding of poverty; Poverty as an ecosocial category.
Conclusion3. Spaces; Social policy; Environmental sociology; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Conclusion; 4. Times; Social policy; Sociology; Environmentalism; Ecosocial poverty revisited; Ecotemporal deprivation; Conclusion; 5. Summary; ECOSOCIAL POLICIES; 6. Energy and fuel poverty; Basic facts; Political solutions and prospects; From trade-offs to synergies?; An ecosocial consensus?; Conclusion; 7. Food and food poverty; Recent developments and prospects; Food policy and poverty; Natural environments and food11; Ecological public health; Two critical reflections; Conclusion.
8. Land: housing and urban densitiesHousing and poverty; Housing and the natural environment; Rent-seeking; Positional racing; Land value taxation; Conclusion; 9. Land: transport, flooding, waste; Transport, poverty and social exclusion; Transport and climate change; Flooding; Flood risk and insurance; Waste; Positional racing revisited; Conclusion; 10. Air and water; Introduction; Pollutants and health; Climate change; Knotted complexities; Air pollution and poverty; Solutions?; Water poverty; The atmospheric commons; Conclusion; Conclusion; References; Index.
Summary Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution.
Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developed countries.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Developed countries.
Climatic changes -- Developed countries.
Global temperature changes -- Social aspects -- Developed countries.
Global temperature changes -- Economic aspects -- Developed countries.
Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- Developed countries.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Developed countries.
Environmental policy -- Developed countries.
Poverty -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01074098
Global temperature changes -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00943496
Environmental policy. (OCoLC)fst00913250
Economic development -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901808
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864236
Climatic changes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864268
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Developed countries. (OCoLC)fst01294462
Other Form: Print version: Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1966- Climate change and poverty. 9781447300878 1447300874
ISBN 9781447300885 (electronic bk.)
1447300882 (electronic bk.)
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