Title Work in a warming world / Carla Lipsig-Mummé, Stephen McBride, editors

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Kingston, ON, Canada : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations Series Queen's policy studies series Queen's policy studies. Contents Introduction / Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- International constraints on green strategies : Ontario's WTO defeat and public sector remedies / Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew -- Unions and climate change in Europe : the contrasting experience of Germany and the United Kingdom / John Calvert -- Gendered emissions : counting greenhouse gas emissions by gender and why it matters / Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Canadian labour's climate dilemma / Geoffrey Bickerton and Carla Lipsig-Mummé -- Renewable energy development as industrial strategy : the case of Ontario's Green energy and green economy act / Mark Winfield -- (Re)building sustainable infrastructure : the implications for engineers / Kean Birch and Dalton Wudrich -- Construction and climate change : overcoming roadblocks to achieving green workplace competencies / John Calvert -- Labour and the greening of hospitality : raising standards or union greenwashing? / Steven Tufts and Simon Milne -- Cities, climate change, and the green economy / Stephen McBride, John Shields, and Stephanie Tombari -- Renewable energy, sustainable jobs : the case of the Kingston, Ontario Region / Megan MacCallum, Lindsay Napier, John Holmes, and Warren Edward Mabee Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Sustainable development. Sustainable development -- Canada Sustainable development -- Government policy Climatic changes -- Government policy. Climatic changes -- Economic aspects Job creation. Green movement. sustainable development. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. Climatic changes -- Economic aspects Climatic changes -- Government policy Green movement Job creation Sustainable development Sustainable development -- Government policy Canada Form Electronic book Author Lipsig-Mummé, Carla, author, editor McBride, Stephen, 1947- author, editor. Sinclair, Scott. International constraints on green strategies ISBN 9781553394334 155339433X 9781553394341 1553394348

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