Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined contemporary crisis of climate change and economic disruption? Will falling back on those wisdoms that have prefigured crises help identify ways forward or simply reconfigure risk so that it might reappear in another guise in the future? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring require a re-thinking of the priorities, processes and underlying values that shape contemporary development aspirations and policy.

"If you're interested in getting to the bottom of why we are killing this beautiful planet of ours and finding out the ways in which we can fight this unfortunate tendency of our species, then, please, have a go, you might like it." - Manchester Climate Monthly

Introduction 1. Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism Part 1: Problem Framing 2. Living with a New Crisis: Climate Change and Transitions out of Carbon Dependency 3. Policy Discourses of Resilience 4. Resilience and Transformation Part 2: Resilience and the Power-knowledge Interface 5. Paradigm Shift in US Climate Policy - But Where is the System Shift? 6. Lessons From the Urban Poor: Collective Action and the Rethinking of Development 7. A Suitable Climate for Political Action? A Sympathetic Review of the Politics of Transition 8. Ecological Modernisation and the Spaces for Feasible Action on Climate Change Part 3: Beyond Capitalism: Critical Theory and De-Growth 9. Climate Change, 'The Cancer Stage of Capitalism' and the Return of Limits to Growth: Towards a Political Economy of Sustainability 10. The Ideology of Growth: Tourism and Alienation in Akumal, Mexico Part 4: The New Politics of Climate Change 11. Utopian Thought as a Missed Opportunity and Leverage Point for Systemic Change 12. Resource Exchange, Political Strategy and the 'New' Politics of Climate Change

Mark Pelling is a Professor of Geography at King's College, London. His research specialism is adaptation to climate change, in developing countries and more recently in the UK and Europe.

David Manuel-Navarrete is a Senior Research Associate at King's College, London and a Visiting Researcher at desiguALdade.net (Free University of Berlin and Ibero-American Institute), where he studies spatial inequalities created by global tourism in the Mexican Caribbean.

Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy at King's College, London. His research interests include sustainable development, global environmental change, environmental security and the modern food system.