Accomplishing Climate Governance

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society's response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

Harriet Bulkeley (Author)

9781108796095, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 November 2019

202 pages
25.3 x 17.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.4 kg

This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of the range of new responses to climate change emerging at multiple scales we need to examine how governance is accomplished - how it is undertaken, practised and contested. Through a range of case studies drawn from communities, corporations and local government, the book examines how climate change comes to be governed and made to matter as an issue with which diverse publics should be concerned. It concludes that rather than seeking the solution to climate change once and for all, we need to engage with the ways in which we can channel our intentions to ameliorate the climate problem to more progressive ends. The book will be of interest to researchers, advanced students and policy makers across the social sciences.

1. Climate problematics
2. Charting climate change in the United Kingdom
3. Practising authority
4. Bringing climate change to order
5. Climate government articulated
6. Assembling climate publics
7. Conclusions
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Conservation of the environment [RNK], Environmentalist thought & ideology [RNA], Environment law [LNKJ], International environmental law [LBBP], Politics & government [JP]