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This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Making Climate Policy In The City Of Ottawa; 3. Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting In Ottawa; 4. Complete Streets and Its Discontents; 5. Intensifying Conflicts: Agonism and The Politics Of Urban Spatial Transformations; 6. Mapping Climate Experimentation In Ottawa; 7. The University Of Ottawa: Strategic Energy Management, Experimentation, and Repoliticization; 8. Renewing Democratic Politics: The Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative; 9. Conclusions; Index.
About the author
Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His books include the Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Climate Capitalism (with Peter Newell, 2010, Cambridge) and the prize-winning Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007, Cambridge). He was a Lead Author for the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Summary
This book is for those who want to step back and ask the underlying question of how climate change is political, and to understand the importance of this question. It provides an overarching framework for understanding climate politics, and a set of detailed empirical analyses that illustrate this framework.
