1st Edition

Postmodern Climate Change

By Leigh Glover Copyright 2007
336 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Climate Change as a Problem of Modernity  2. Modernity and Postmodernity  3. Climate Change Science: Modern Knowledge of a Decreasingly Natural World  4. Climate Change Governance: An International Liberal Democratic System  5. Climate Change Management: Global Aspirations  6. Conclusion: Climate Change and Ecological Postmodernity

Biography

Leigh Glover is Policy Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, USA.

Now available in a paperback edition, Professor Glover’s interdisciplinary book is full of insightful thoughts and theoretical demonstrations; that is its main strength. -- Reviewed by Yves Laberge Québec. G1V 0A6, Canada