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This volume assembles nearly one hundred top experts to systematically address the complex, organized, and well-funded set of actors who have actively resisted and undermined policy efforts to address climate change. Contributors examine obstruction efforts undertaken across regions and industries; assess the role of the media in disseminating climate disinformation and misinformation; and discuss legal, state, and non-state efforts to address climate obstruction. Providing a first-of-its-kind assessment of global climate obstruction, this volume advances our understanding of efforts to slow or block policies on climate change to guide more effective action to prevent obstruction in the future.
About the author
J. Timmons Roberts is the Ittleson Professor of Environment and Society and the Executive Director of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. Roberts is the co-author or editor of fourteen books and edited volumes, and of more than one hundred articles and book chapters. He was awarded the Frederick Buttel Award for distinguished scholarship from the American Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association.
Carlos R. S. Milani is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the Rio de Janeiro State University. He is the director of the Interdisciplinary Observatory of Climate Change and a member of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. His latest book is
Cooperación internacional al desarrollo: entre solidaridad e interés (El Colegio de México, 2023).
Jennifer Jacquet is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami, and affiliated faculty with the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. She is also Associate Research Director of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. She is the author of dozens of research articles and two books:
Is Shame Necessary (Pantheon, 2015) and
The Playbook (Pantheon, 2022).
Christian Downie is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University, where he is the Director of the Governing Energy Transition (GET) Lab. Downie has worked as an advisor to governments and think tanks. He is the author of two books and more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on global climate and energy politics.
