Pathologies of Climate Governance

Paul G. Harris has written or edited 25 books on global environmental and climate change politics, policy, and ethics, including: What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Polity Press, 2013), the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Routledge, 2014), Global Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and Climate Change and Ocean Governance (Cambridge, 2019). He is the Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong and a Senior Research Fellow in the Earth System Governance global research alliance.

'Paul Harris provides an excellent account of the major structural, political and psychosocial causes of the climate crisis and the failures of climate governance - but ends positively with a shopping list of plausible policy solutions. Very accessible, often provocative, sometimes depressing, but always engaging, this should be read by everyone interested in climate politics.' Neil Carter, University of York

• Acknowledgements; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Part I. Problems: 1. Dysfunction in climate governance; 2. The worsening climate crisis; Part II. Pathologies: 3. Pathologies of international relations; 4. Pathologies of national politics in the United States and China; 5. Pathologies of national politics in the Global North; 6. Pathologies of national politics in the Global South; 7. Pathologies of human nature; Part III. Prescriptions: 8. Reconsidering international, national and human governance; 9. Prescriptions for governing climate change; 10. Policies and prospects for climate governance; Conclusion; References; Index.