Postmodern Climate ChangeA 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. |
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2 Modernity and postmodernity | 19 |
Modern knowledge of a decreasingly natural world | 69 |
An international liberaldemocratic system | 137 |
5 Global environmental management of climate | 211 |
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