商品描述
This volume sheds light on the complex global landscape of democracy weakening and autocracy strengthening, along with their profound impact on the response to the climate crisis. The book is divided into three sections and adopts a multidisciplinary approach. The first section examines various pathways of global democracy erosion and autocracy growth, including challenges posed by voters, politicians, unelected officials, and climate skeptics. In the second section, the focus shifts to climate change politics in a divided world, investigating the challenges political polarization poses to a sustainable future. The chapters cover key topics, such as energy security, responses to environmental disasters, environmental sustainability, sustainable development, and human rights. The impact of eroding democracy on the natural environment and the sustainability concerns during the climate change era is explored in the third section, viewed through a rarely used humanities lens. Studies on pro-climatic national symbols, ecofeminism, eco-justice, and the Sustainable Development Goals ante litteram provide the context for this final section. This book offers invaluable insights into our evolving world. For scholars, students, policymakers, and activists in fields such as autocracy, democracy, politics of climate change, political sociology, international relations, and sustainability, it presents strategies to navigate climate change adaptation in a rapidly changing, less democratic world.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書揭示了民主衰退與專制增強的複雜全球格局，以及它們對氣候危機應對的深遠影響。全書分為三個部分，採用多學科的方法。第一部分探討了全球民主侵蝕與專制增長的各種途徑，包括選民、政治家、未經選舉的官員和氣候懷疑論者所帶來的挑戰。
第二部分的重點轉向分裂世界中的氣候變遷政治，調查政治極化對可持續未來所帶來的挑戰。各章節涵蓋了關鍵主題，如能源安全、對環境災難的應對、環境可持續性、可持續發展和人權。
第三部分探討了民主衰退對自然環境的影響以及在氣候變遷時代的可持續性問題，並透過一個鮮少使用的人文視角來觀察。對於支持氣候的國家象徵、環境女性主義、生態正義以及可持續發展目標 ante litteram 的研究為這一最後部分提供了背景。
本書為我們不斷演變的世界提供了寶貴的見解。對於專制、民主、氣候變遷政治、政治社會學、國際關係和可持續性等領域的學者、學生、政策制定者和活動家而言，本書提出了在快速變化、民主程度降低的世界中應對氣候變遷適應的策略。
作者簡介
Barbara Wejnert is a Professor of Political Sociology, Sustainability, and Gender at the Department of Environment and Sustainability, as well as a faculty member at the Jaeckel Center for Law, Democracy and Governance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. Her work focuses on democracy and the factors that impact its adoption, global diffusion, and democracy retreat, as well as the effects of democracy on countries' sustainable development and population well-being. In particular, she studies the impact of democratic politics on gender equity and gender-balanced policies as pathways to sustainable development across the US and internationally. She has further studied the multiple causes and differential outcomes of spreading democracy worldwide, as well as the effects of democracy's growth and retreat on countries' sustainable development efforts. Wejnert is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and Perspectives on Politics, which discuss democratizing processes and their consequences for social policies and countries' development. Her book "Diffusion of Democracy", published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, received multiple nominations for scholarly awards. Wejnert is also the recipient of the prestigious Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award for her work on the effects of democratization on unequal outcomes of democracy on the well-being of women compared to men.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
芭芭拉·維耶特（Barbara Wejnert）是美國紐約州立大學水牛城分校環境與可持續發展系的政治社會學、可持續性和性別教授，同時也是該校法律、民主與治理傑克爾中心的教職員。她的研究重點在於民主及其採納、全球擴散和民主退潮的影響因素，以及民主對國家可持續發展和人口福祉的影響。特別是，她研究民主政治對性別平等和性別平衡政策的影響，這些政策被視為美國及國際上可持續發展的途徑。她還研究了全球民主擴散的多重原因和不同結果，以及民主增長和退潮對國家可持續發展努力的影響。維耶特是多本書籍的作者或編輯，並在多個同行評審期刊上發表了大量文章，包括《美國社會學評論》（American Sociological Review）、《社會學年鑑》（Annual Review of Sociology）和《政治觀點》（Perspectives on Politics），這些文章探討了民主化過程及其對社會政策和國家發展的後果。她於2014年出版的書籍《民主擴散》（Diffusion of Democracy）由劍橋大學出版社出版，並獲得多項學術獎提名。維耶特還因其在民主化對女性與男性福祉不平等結果的影響方面的研究，獲得了著名的阿琳·卡普蘭·丹尼爾斯論文獎（Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award）。
