Laurence Delina Authors New Book on Climate Activism Strategies Based on Historical Social Movements

Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored his fourth book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories.

The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. Drawing on specific examples from history in India, the United States, the Philippines, and Burma, Delina explores a variety of strategic tools — including identity building, framing, and network diversification — that would strengthen the collective efforts of climate action organizations and institutions.

The book is available for purchase in e-book and hardcover formats.

At the Pardee Center, Delina leads a research project called The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries, which seeks to understand the options and trade-offs for achieving a secure and sustainable energy future in a select number of developing countries. He is the author of three other recent books: Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime mobilisation as a model for action? (Routledge 2016), Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The challenges of climate change and sustainable development (Routledge 2017), and Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).