ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|18 pages

Climate change and modernity

chapter 2|50 pages

Modernity and postmodernity

chapter 3|68 pages

Climate change science

Modern knowledge of a decreasingly natural world

chapter 4|74 pages

Climate change governance

An international liberal-democratic system

chapter 6|13 pages

Conclusion

Climate change and ecological postmodernity