Governing Climate
eBook - ePub

Governing Climate

How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

  1. 367 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Governing Climate

How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

About this book

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of climate knowledge and power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security, " and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Governing Climate in the Past, Present, and Future
  8. Part I. Climate Change and the Coproduction of Meteorological and Social Order
  9. Part II. Stabilizing Climate, Economizing Weather
  10. Part III. Climate Crisis and the Politics of Climate Expertise
  11. Conclusion: Legible Alternatives? Remaking Climate, Rethinking Climatic Stability
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index