Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future /
by Robinson, Mary; Palmer, Caitriona.
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BookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018Description: xii, 162 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781408888469 (hbk.) :; 1408888467 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 363.7387 ROBSubject(s): Climate change mitigation | Climatic changes -- Government policy | Human security | Environment and ecology | Environment and EcologySummary: Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his 50th birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people - people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.7387 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002962371X |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his 50th birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people - people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself.
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