New from CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, March 2021
Paul G. Harris, Pathologies of Climate Governance: International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature
“Paul Harris provides an excellent account of the major structural, political and psychosocial causes of the climate crisis and the failures of climate governance…. Very accessible, often provocative, sometimes depressing, but always engaging, this should be read by everyone interested in climate politics.” Neil Carter, Professor of Politics, University of York
Earth’s climate is in crisis. The crisis is growing worse. Climate governance has failed to meet the challenge. Pathologies of Climate Governance: International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2021) diagnoses this failure, examining climate governance as if it were a sick patient. In so doing, it uncovers the fundamental pathologies causing the worsening climate crisis. It distills decades of global climate negotiations to reveal the features of international relations that make climate action so difficult. It explores the politics of climate change in Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, small-island states, the United States and other countries to locate obstacles to climate governance. It exposes underlying psychosocial aspects of climate change, showing how human nature, overconsumption and global economics conspire to cause it and to stymie climate action. Pathologies of Climate Governance cuts through complex science, politics and policy, in the process identifying what every concerned reader needs to know and do about the climate crisis.
For a summary of the book and links to more information, go here: https://paulgharris.net/books/pathologies-of-climate-governance-summary/
To see the full table of contents, go here: https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/23410/toc/9781108423410_toc.pdf
To read the first chapter, go here: https://paulgharris.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/chapter-1.-dysfunction-in-climate-governance.pdf
For official information from Cambridge University Press, go here: https://www.cambridge.org/harris2021
To access the entire book on Cambridge Core (subscription required), go here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pathologies-of-climate-governance/4D03C7262B1BEBE955769933526C0D14
To visit the Amazon page for the book and use the “look inside” tool, go here: https://www.amazon.com/Pathologies-Climate-Governance-International-Relations/dp/1108437532/
For a 20% discount flyer from Cambridge University Press, go here: https://paulgharris.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/9781108437530_pathologies-of-climate-governance_flyer.pdf
For lecturers, professors and students, access the comprehensive Pathologies of Climate Governance Online Learning Companion, including a bibliography with links to nearly 1,000 sources, here: https://paulgharris.net/pathologies-of-climate-governance/
The author is available to answer questions or participate in discussions via Microsoft Teams or Zoom (if a mutually agreeable time can be arranged). To contact the author, go here: https://paulgharris.net/contact/
