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Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520401301
ISBN13: 9780520401303
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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