PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg: Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses -- PART II: THE CHALLENGE AND ITS HISTORY -- 2: Will Steffen: A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem -- 3: Dale Jamieson: The Nature of the Problem -- 4: Mark Sagoff: The Poverty of Climate Economics -- 5: Spencer Weart: The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change -- 6: Maarten A. Hajer and Wytske Versteeg: Voices of Vulnerability: The Reconfiguration of Policy Discourses -- 7: Timothy W. Luke: Environmentality -- PART III: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND PUBLIC OPINION -- 8: Hans von Storch, Armin Bunde, and Nico Stehr: The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics -- 9: Sheila Jasanoff: Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology -- 10: Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright: Organized Climate Change Denial -- 11: Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling: Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science-Action Gap -- PART IV: SOCIAL IMPACTS -- 12: Robert Mendelsohn: Economic Estimates of the Damages Caused by Climate Change -- 13: Richard B. Norgaard: Weighing Climate Futures: A Critical Review of the Application of Economic Valuation -- 14: Colin Polsky and Hallie Eakin: Global Change Vulnerability Assessments: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities -- 15: Elizabeth G. Hanna: Health Hazards -- 16: Robert Melchior Figueroa: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses -- PART V: SECURITY -- 17: Nils Gilman, Doug Randall, and Peter Schwartz: Climate Change and <"Security>" -- 18: Jon Barnett: Human Security -- 19: Timothy Doyle and Sanjay Chaturvedi: Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories, and Contestations -- PART VI: JUSTICE -- 20: Simon Dietz: From Efficiency to Justice: Utility as the Informational Basis for Climate Strategies, and Some Alternatives -- 21: Stephen M. Gardiner: Climate Justice -- 22: Paul Baer: International Justice -- 23: Richard Howarth: Intergenerational Justice -- PART VII: PUBLICS AND MOVEMENTS -- 24: Matthew C. Nisbet: Public Opinion and Participation -- 25: Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Corina McKendry: Social Movements and Global Civil Society -- 26: Paul Routledge: Transnational Climate Justice Solidarities -- 27: Kari Marie Norgaard: Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture, and Political Economy -- 28: Laurel Kearns: The Role of Religions in Activism -- PART VIII: GOVERNMENT RESPONSES -- 29: Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley: Comparing State Responses -- 30: Miranda A. Schreurs: Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China -- 31: Harriet Bulkeley: Cities and Subnational Governments -- 32: Daniel A. Farber: Issues of Scale in Climate Governance -- 33: Ian Gough and James Meadowcroft: Decarbonizing the Welfare State -- 34: Sivan Kartha: Discourses of The Global South -- PART IX: POLICY INSTRUMENTS -- 35: David Harrison, Andrew Foss, Per Klevnas, and Daniel Radov: Economic Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 36: Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rèudiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito: Policy Instruments in Practice -- 37: Clive L. Spash: Carbon Trading: A Critique -- 38: Mark Diesendorf: Redesigning Energy Systems -- PART X: PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS -- 39: Simone Pulver: Corporate Responses -- 40: Andrew Szasz: Is Green Consumption Part of the Solution? -- PART XI: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE -- 41: Matthew Paterson: Selling Carbon: From International Climate Regime to Global Carbon Market -- 42: Oran R. Young: Improving the Performance of the Climate Regime: Insights from Regime Analysis -- 43: Paul G. Harris: Reconceptualizing Global Governance -- 44: Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett: The Role of International Law in Global Governance -- PART XII: RECONSTRUCTION -- 45: Karin Bèackstrand: The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance After Copenhagen -- 46: Frank Biermann: New Actors and Mechanisms of Global Governance -- 47: W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, and James Waters: Resilience.