Postmodern Climate Change

About this book

This book provides a much-needed analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. Leigh Glover presents a new way to understand the climate change problem and is concerned with problems of modernity and postmodernity in the context of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the international politics surrounding the UN agreement of climate change, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, Glover examines the issue using the key aspects of climate change science, global environmental politics, and global environmental management.

Contents

ACRONYMS "PREFACE" 1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND MODERNITY Introduction Climate Change as Crisis 2. MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY Modernity Postmodernity Postmodernity and Environmentalism Climate Change's Challenge to Modernity 3. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE: MODERN KNOWLEDGE OF A DECREASINGLY NATURAL WORLD A History of Climate Change Science Climate Change Science and Modernity A Political Economy of Knowledge Postmodern Science Post-normal Science 4. CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC SYSYEM Devising a System for Global Climate Governance Liberal Democratic Climate Governance Political economy of the FCCC Searches for Ecological Justice in the Greenhouse 5. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF CLIMATE Growing Threats and Expanding Goals Global Climate Management Political and Economic Interests in Global Climate Critiques from Political Ecology 6. CONCLUSION: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECOLOGICAL POSTMODERNITY Modernity and Ecologism Climate Change and the Limits of Modernity Alternative Pathways for Responding to Climate Change Coda: Ecological Postmodernity REFERENCES

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Biography

Leigh Glover is Policy Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, USA.