Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

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Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

SIan Sullivan, Bath Spab University

ISBN 13: 9781800642621

Publisher: Steffen Böhm and Sian Sullivan

Language: English

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I. Paradigms
Ii. What counts?
Iii. Extraction
Iv. Dispatches from a climate change frontline country—Namibia, Southern Africa
V. Governance
Vi. Finance
Vii. Action(s)

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About the Book

Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.

Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies.

This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis.

About the Contributors

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Steffen Böhm is Professor in Organisation & Sustainability at University of Exeter Business School. His research focuses on the political economyand ecology of the sustainability transition. He has published five books: Repositioning Organization Theory (Palgrave, 2006), Against Automobility(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets (Mayfly), The Atmosphere Business (Mayfly, 2009), and Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities (Routledge, 2015). The book Climate Activism (with Annika Skoglund) is forthcoming with Cambridge. More details at www.steffenboehm.net.

Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spab University and UK Principal Investigator for Etosha-Kunene HistoriesThe Authors xxix (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net). She is an environmental anthropologist, cultural geographer and political ecologist working torecognise diversity in perceptions and representations of the natural world, amidst contemporary concern about climate change and speciesdecline. Over the last few years she has led an Arts and Humanities Research Council project called Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) focusing on understandings of sustainability in the conservation and cultural landscapes of west Namibia. She has also researched the‘financialisation of nature’—see The Natural Capital Myth (www.thenatural-capital-myth.net).

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