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Political Challenges of the Climate-Changed Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

David Schlosberg*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney

Extract

We are at a turning point when it comes to the political implications of climate change. Given the reality of a future in a climate-changed world, it is time for us—broadly as a species, but particularly as academics—to move beyond the foci of the last few decades on the politics of preventing climate change through global agreements. There is a growing literature on the obvious need to slow the impacts of climate change, develop postcarbon energy systems, and design new forms of global environmental governance. Beyond these immediate needs, however, climate change poses a range of new problems and requires a broader research agenda for a climate-challenged politics.

Type
Symposium: Climate Change Justice
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013

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