Political Science Environmental Policy
Work in a Warming World
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2016
- Category
- Environmental Policy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781553394334
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553394327
- Publish Date
- Apr 2015
- List Price
- $45.95
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Description
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts.
The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change.
Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.
About the authors
Carla Lipsig-Mummé is professor of work and labour studies at York University.
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Stephen McBride, Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, specializes in political economy, and comparative public policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada (1992) which won the 1994 Smiley prize, and Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State (2001; 2nd edition 2005). He is the co-author of Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993; 2nd edition 1997) and several co-edited volumes: Global Turbulence: Social Activists’ and State Responses to Globalization (2003), Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (2002), Globalization and its Discontents (2000), and Power in a Global Era (2000).
Stephen McBride is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in public policy and globalization at McMaster University.
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