Climate Change and the Endurance of Democracy

This book explores the challenges climate change poses to the endurance of democracy, situating this theme within the context of the decline in global freedom documented since the early 21st century.

Autorentext

Daniel Lindvall has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stockholm University and is a Senior Researcher at the Climate Change Leadership Initiative at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. His research mostly focuses on the interrelation between climate change and democracy, but he is also conducting research on climate governance, just transition, climate policy acceptance and energy policies, with a particular focus on energy democracy and energy justice. He is involved in a research project on fair transition and on wicked problem governance, comparing science-policy interaction in climate and COVID-19 governance.

Lindvall has worked in the Swedish government offices for several years and has severed as a Deputy Director at the unit for Democratic Affairs. He was the principal inquiry secretary for the Swedish Government's Democracy Commission from 2014 to 2016 and for three additional governmental inquires. He has moreover worked as an advisor in different international organizations, such as the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union Police Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has previously published books in Swedish, such as Folkstyret i rädslans tid and Upphettning: Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid. He has published a chapter in Democracy in a Hotter Time, edited by David Orr, as well as several articles in various journals and newspapers.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Can democracy endure climate change?

Chapter 2 - Freedom in the age of the Anthropocene:: The interconnection between fossil fuels, democracy and climate change

Chapter 3 - The Earth is on fire: Climate disasters and the culture of democracy

Chapter 4 - Climate extremes as critical junctions: Disasters events and democratic development

Chapter 5 - Hunger for freedom: Food insecurity and democracy at a planet in crisis

Chapter 6 -The cost of heating: Climate change, economic recesions and the backsliding of democracy

Chapter 7 - Divided by heat: Climate change as a driver of socioeconomic inequality and democratic decline

Chapter 8 - Global warming and the conditions for political mobilization

Index