1st Edition

Political Theory and Global Climate Action Recasting the Public Sphere

By Idil Boran Copyright 2019
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

From around the world, cities and regions, civil society networks and businesses, nongovernmental organizations and institutions for research and learning, and many others, are taking action on climate change. The role of these nonstate and substate actors is increasingly being recognized in the new facilitative climate regime. Political theory to date has been surprisingly silent about the... Read more

Acknowledgements; Introducing political theory and global climate action; Chapter 1 Political theory and the discontents of climate change justice; Chapter 2 Bringing public life back in; Chapter 3 Three visions of public philosophy; Chapter 4 Justice and equity in the global public sphere; Chapter 5 Partners in transformations; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Idil Boran is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, York University, Canada, and Associate Researcher at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institute für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, Germany.