Work in a warming world /edited by Carla Lipsig-Mummé and Stephen McBride.
Work in a warming world /edited by Carla Lipsig-Mummé and Stephen McBride.
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press ; (c)2015. Kingston : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Queen's policy studies series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / International constraints on green strategies : Ontario's WTO defeat and public sector remedies / Unions and climate change in Europe : the contrasting experience of Germany and the UK / Gendered emissions : counting greenhouse gas emissions by gender and why it matters / Canadian labour's climate dilemma / Renewable energy development as industrial strategy / (Re)building sustainable infrastructure : implications for engineers / Construction and climate change : overcoming roadblocks to achieving green workplace competencies / Labour and the greening of hospitality : raising standards or union greenwashing? / Cities, climate change, and the green economy / Renewable energy, sustainable jobs : the case of the Kingston, Ontario Region / Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew -- John Calvert -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Geoffrey Bickerton and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- Mark Winfield -- Kean Birch and Dalton Wudrich -- John Calvert -- Steven Tufts and Simon Milne -- Stephen McBride, John Shields, and Stephanie Tombari -- Andrea Megan MacCallum, Lindsay Napier, John Holmes, and arren Edward Mabee.
"Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy."--Publisher's website.
9781553394327
(AMICUS)000043249311
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development--Canada.
Sustainable development--Government policy.
Climatic changes--Government policy.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Job creation.
Green movement.
Electronic Books.
HC79 / .W675 2015
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / International constraints on green strategies : Ontario's WTO defeat and public sector remedies / Unions and climate change in Europe : the contrasting experience of Germany and the UK / Gendered emissions : counting greenhouse gas emissions by gender and why it matters / Canadian labour's climate dilemma / Renewable energy development as industrial strategy / (Re)building sustainable infrastructure : implications for engineers / Construction and climate change : overcoming roadblocks to achieving green workplace competencies / Labour and the greening of hospitality : raising standards or union greenwashing? / Cities, climate change, and the green economy / Renewable energy, sustainable jobs : the case of the Kingston, Ontario Region / Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew -- John Calvert -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Geoffrey Bickerton and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- Mark Winfield -- Kean Birch and Dalton Wudrich -- John Calvert -- Steven Tufts and Simon Milne -- Stephen McBride, John Shields, and Stephanie Tombari -- Andrea Megan MacCallum, Lindsay Napier, John Holmes, and arren Edward Mabee.
"Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy."--Publisher's website.
9781553394327
(AMICUS)000043249311
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development--Canada.
Sustainable development--Government policy.
Climatic changes--Government policy.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Job creation.
Green movement.
Electronic Books.
HC79 / .W675 2015