Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice (New Approaches to International History) - Softcover

Ruth A. Morgan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350240125 ISBN 13: 9781350240124

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (UK), 2024

Synopsis

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (UK)
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350240125
• ISBN 13: 9781350240124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280