Constance Lever-Tracy was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia, now retired. Her recent work includes editing the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2010), and the entry for ‘Global Warming’ in the International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (2008).

• Introduction Part 1: What Do We Know? 1. Introduction to Part 1 2. Knowns and Unknowns 3. Manifest Vulnerabilities 4. Future Risks 5. Confronting the Risks Part 2: What Can We Do? 6. Introduction to Part 2 7. Changing Our Practices 8. Changing Our Power: Natural Gas, Biofuels and Nuclear Energy 9. Changing Our Power: Water, Wind, Sun and Earth 10. Adapting to a Changing Climate Part 3: Who Can Do It? 11. From the Bottom Up or the Top Down 12. Global Conflict or Cooperation? 13. Conclusion

Constance Lever-Tracy was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia, now retired. Her recent work includes editing the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2010), and the entry for ‘Global Warming’ in the International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (2008).

• Introduction Part 1: What Do We Know? 1. Introduction to Part 1 2. Knowns and Unknowns 3. Manifest Vulnerabilities 4. Future Risks 5. Confronting the Risks Part 2: What Can We Do? 6. Introduction to Part 2 7. Changing Our Practices 8. Changing Our Power: Natural Gas, Biofuels and Nuclear Energy 9. Changing Our Power: Water, Wind, Sun and Earth 10. Adapting to a Changing Climate Part 3: Who Can Do It? 11. From the Bottom Up or the Top Down 12. Global Conflict or Cooperation? 13. Conclusion

Constance Lever-Tracy was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia, now retired. Her recent work includes editing the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2010), and the entry for ‘Global Warming’ in the International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (2008).

• Introduction Part 1: What Do We Know? 1. Introduction to Part 1 2. Knowns and Unknowns 3. Manifest Vulnerabilities 4. Future Risks 5. Confronting the Risks Part 2: What Can We Do? 6. Introduction to Part 2 7. Changing Our Practices 8. Changing Our Power: Natural Gas, Biofuels and Nuclear Energy 9. Changing Our Power: Water, Wind, Sun and Earth 10. Adapting to a Changing Climate Part 3: Who Can Do It? 11. From the Bottom Up or the Top Down 12. Global Conflict or Cooperation? 13. Conclusion