Climate Politics Books
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is... (more)
Environmental Justice: Key Issues
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics... (more)
Climate Change
Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents... (more)
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity
Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has... (more)
Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer
Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.
For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate... (more)
Reimagining Climate Change
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one... (more)
Climate Justice: An Introduction
The link between justice and climate change is becoming increasingly prominent in public debates on climate policy. This clear and concise philosophical introduction to climate justice addresses the... (more)
The Psychology of Climate Change
The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change. The... (more)
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful... (more)
We Belong to Gaia
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable... (more)
A Warning from the Golden Toad
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North... (more)
Uncanny and Improbable Events
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of... (more)
This Can't Be Happening
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In the galvanising speeches and essays brought together in This Can't Be Happening, George Monbiot calls on... (more)
Think Like a Mountain
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leopold considers the different ways humans shape... (more)
The Most Dammed Country in the World
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail... (more)
An Idea Can Go Extinct
An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending... (more)
Every Species is a Masterpiece
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some of Edward O. Wilson's most profound and significant... (more)
All Art is Ecological
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass... (more)
Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation
This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social... (more)
Global Environmental Politics
With new cases on biodiversity and desertification, this classic work is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of environmental politics on the market.In addition to providing a concise yet... (more)
Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement
This book explores when, where, and why environmental blockading and its associated tactics first arose. (more)
Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty: Navigating Freedom in the Age of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence
This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI). (more)
Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions. (more)
Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse
The book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav... (more)
Political Theory and Global Climate Action: Recasting the Public Sphere
Idil Boran argues provocatively for the need for a widened scope of vision, one that has a broader public life of climate action at its centre. (more)
Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present
This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. (more)
Climate Change, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Public Pedagogies: The Case for Ecosocialism
This highly topical book will be of interest to scholars, postgraduate students and researchers, as well as to advanced undergraduate students in the fields of environmental studies, pedagogy, and... (more)
Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory
This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment. (more)
Carbon Inequality: The Role of the Richest in Climate Change
This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in inequality, climate change and sustainability transitions. (more)