The importance of this work is not easily overstated. With its timeliness, scholarly rigour, and readability, this excellent study contributes substantially to our knowledge of climate science and diplomacy.

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Amid the proliferation of climate change literature, Ruth Morgan’s <i>Climate Change and International History </i>stands out ... Up-to-date and richly sourced, this will be required reading for this reviewer’s climate politics and governance students, and will appeal to those in political science, environmental studies, and science and technology studies programs... Highly recommended.

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The author’s main contribution to the field is her presentation of a multidimensional narrative that integrates and contextualizes such a vast and complex subject. This ensures that the book will occupy a prominent place in the historiography of climate change.

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Ruth A. Morgan’s <i>Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice</i> appears with urgent relevance amid intensifying, intertwined crises of climate and international politics…Morgan reveals that these crises have deeper roots and involve a wider range of actors than often appreciated in scholarship. In doing so, she accomplishes something rare among histories of climate (in)justice: cause for hope.

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Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it. Developing amidst the Cold War, decolonization and a growing transnational environmental consciousness, it asks how this wider historical context has shaped international responses to the greatest threat to humankind to date.

Thinking beyond the science of climate change to the way it is received and responded to, Ruth Morgan shows how climate science has been mobilised in the political sphere, paying particular attention to the North-South dynamics of climate diplomacy. The privileging of climate science and the mobilisation of climate scepticism are explored to consider how they have undermined efforts to remedy this planetary problem. Studying climate change and international history in tandem, this book explains the origins of the debates around this environmental emergency, the response of political leaders attempting to address the threat, and the barriers to creating an international regime to resolve the climate crisis.

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A study of the emergence of climate change as a political concern in the international arena since the 1950s, and how international stakeholders have responded to it.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Peaceful Climate
2. Anxious Air
3. Endangered Atmosphere
4. Global Greenhouse
5. Climate Negotiations
6. Allocated Atmosphere
7. Global Security
8. Climate Crisis

Epilogue
Index

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A study of the emergence of climate change as a political concern in the international arena since the 1950s, and how international stakeholders have responded to it.
An international history of climate change exploring how it has been engaged with and responded to by stakeholders around the world
New Approaches to International History covers international history during the modern period and across the globe. The series incorporates new developments in the field, such as the cultural turn and transnationalism, as well as the classical high politics of state-centric policymaking and diplomatic relations. Written with upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in mind, texts in the series provide an accessible overview of international, global and transnational issues, events and actors.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350240124
Publisert
2024-02-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

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Om bidragsyterne

Ruth A. Morgan is Director of the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University, Australia. She has published widely on the climate and water histories of Australia and the British Empire.