Climate change: transitions to sustainability
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Globalisation and environmental change
  - 1.1 What is 'globalisation'?
  - 1.2 Globalisation is about networks
- 2 Globalisation and the global environment: three views
  - 2.1 Political responses to climate change and the environment
  - 2.2 Vibrant civil societies and a networked globe
- 3 Governance, citizenship and sustainability
  - 3.1 Who will make the decisions?
  - 3.2 Governance – filling the hole where government used to be
    - 3.2.1 What is the difference between government and governance?
    - 3.2.2 Good green governance in five easy steps
  - 3.3 Green governance needs citizens
    - 3.3.1 Too late for the nation state?
    - 3.3.2 Citizenship beyond (species) borders
    - 3.3.3 Obligations to trees?
    - 3.3.4 Home-grown compassion, not public commitments
- 4 Making it happen – sustainability in practice
  - 4.1 Three approaches to global environmental change
  - 4.2 Capitalism – naturally
    - 4.2.1 Eco-efficiency = money in the bank
    - 4.2.3 Business needs sustainability
  - 4.3 Green from the grassroots up
    - 4.3.1 Ecological tax reforms
    - 4.3.2 Complementary currencies
    - 4.3.3 Pipe dreams?
  - 4.4 Signing everyone up to sustainability
    - 4.4.1 Partnerships for sustainable consumption
- 5 New ways of looking at the world
- 7 Summary and final thoughts
  - 7.1 Questions
  - 7.2 Answers
- 6 Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements

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