Climate Change, Consumption and Intergenerational Justice: Lived Experiences in China, Uganda and the UK

Description

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialised 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 examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore how far 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.

Dr Kristina Diprose is a Research Associate in the University of Sheffield's Urban Institute. Professor Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield Professor Robert Vanderbeck is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds Dr Chen Liu is Lecturer of Cultural Geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University Katie McQuaid is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds.

"Empirically rich, this book argues for sustained engagement between grassroots and policy-level actors to mitigate climate change. The notion of 'unimagining the future' reveals how everyday injustice impedes environmental citizenship." Kelvin Mason, University of Liverpool