Climate Change, Consumption and Intergenerational Justice

Lived Experiences in China, Uganda and the UK

Diprose, Kristina, Valentine, Gill, Kristina Diprose, Gill Valentine, Robert M Vanderbeck, Chen Liu, Katie McQuaid

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781529204735
• eBook ISBN: 9781529204759
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Warming & Climate Change
• Index: Biological Sciences

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and to examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change.

The authors explore to what extent different nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Photographs
• Notes on the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• One Introduction
• Two A Global and Intergenerational Storm
• Three Local Narratives of Climate Change
• Four Moral Geographies of Climate Change
• Five Intergenerational Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption
• Six Imagining Alternative Futures
• References
• Index