
Understanding Global Crises
From Covid to Climate Change and Economic Collapse
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Understanding Global Crises
From Covid to Climate Change and Economic Collapse
About this book
Understanding Global Crises is an innovative and interdisciplinary text that investigates the key contemporary economic, social, and environmental crises and demonstrates their deep interconnection.
Contributing to the discussion of large-scale crises, this book provides a conceptual framework to understand the current global landscape. Essential cascading crises topics, such as economic collapse, climate change, racial injustice, domestic violence, and epistemic oppression, are explored in order to equip readers with the clarity to understand global crises, assess policy interventions, and analyze social responses. To achieve future resilience, the book shows that society must recognize various forms of inequality and make policy changes.
Each chapter showcases an international case study, covering real-life examples of topics such as climate disinformation, vaccine distribution disparities, environmental racism, and socioeconomic deprivation. Other features of the book include key terms, suggested further reading, and discussion questions, as well as online supplements comprising PowerPoint slides and an instructor's guide. Understanding Global Crises will be a valuable text to support courses in economics, environmental studies, political science, public health, and social policy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of case studies
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- An overview of the book
- Learning objectives
- eBook+ features
- 1 Global crises: an introduction
- Part I Health, economic, and environmental crises
- Part II Social instability
- Part III Building future resilience
- Index