Ireland and the Climate Crisis

David Robbins is Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland. Diarmuid Torney is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland. Pat Brereton is Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland.

“This book aspires to be a comprehensive read on the climate crisis in Ireland … . This is the best examination of the climate crisis in Ireland yet written. It offers new arguments and angles of interpretation to those already well versed in this subject. It is an essential text for anyone who seeks to understand the crisis and our possible responses.” (Ciara Murphy, Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 112 (445), 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Climate change in Ireland: Science, Impacts and Adaptation.- 3. Ireland’s Policy Response to Climate Change: an Historical Overview.- 4. Climate Litigation, Politics and Policy Change: Lessons from Urgenda and Climate Case Ireland.- 5. Climate Law in Ireland: EU and National Dimensions.- 6. The Party Politics of Climate Change in Ireland.- 7. Responding to Climate Change: the Role of Local Government in Ireland.- 8. Ecological Modernisation, Irish-style: Explaining Ireland’s Slow Transition to a Low Carbon Society.- 9. Challenges and potentials for socio-ecological transformation: Considering Structural Aspects of Change.- 10. Climate Change and the Media.- 11. Cultural and Visual Responses to Climate Change: Ecological Reading of Irish Zombie Movies.-12. Community Engagement and Community Energy.- 13. Climate Change Education in Ireland: Emerging Practice in a Context of Resistance.- 14. Climate Action via Just Transition Across the Island of Ireland: Labour, Land and the Low Carbon Transition.- 15. The Changing Faces of the Climate Movement in Ireland.- 16. Cloughjordan Ecovillage: Community-led transitioning to a low-carbon future.