num_pages: 727
description: Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems and how societies can do and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues social and political reception of climate science the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them questions of human security and social justice obligations to future generations policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and governance at local regional national international and global levels.
language: English
title: The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
publisher: Oxford University Press