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Chicago Series in Law and Society Ser.: Governing the End : The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage by Lisa Vanhala (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226842975
ISBN-139780226842974
eBay Product ID (ePID)24074981055
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameGoverning the End : the Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
SubjectGlobalization, General, International Relations / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLaw, Political Science
AuthorLisa Vanhala
SeriesChicago Series in Law and Society Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2025-002982
ReviewsVanhala provides a much needed and insightful account of the history, politics, and governance of loss and damage in the climate regime. She reveals how the constructive ambiguity of the concept sowed the seeds for future challenges--glossing over critical issues of responsibility and accountability. Ultimately, Vanhala argues, these problems have contributed to the end of governing--where policymakers have created minimal rules which fall short of addressing the underlying challenges we all now face., A landmark contribution to one of the most urgent questions of global justice: how to compensate those the least responsible for and yet most affected by climate change. Grounded in rigorous research, Governing the End offers an incisive account of international law's failures to address this pressing issue. It should be required reading for scholars, policymakers, advocates, and all those committed to understanding and advancing climate justice., Compelling, illuminating, and provocative, Governing the End is a major scholarly achievement that offers an expansive yet detailed and accessible analysis of the international politics addressing (or evading, as often is the case) the challenges of climate change.
Dewey Edition23/eng/20250128
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal344.04/6342
Table Of ContentList of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The End as a Starting Point 2. Theorizing the Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage 3. Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Study Global Climate Governance 4. Constructing Climate Change Loss and Damage in International Law 5. Putting Ambiguity into Practice(s): The Loss and Damage Executive Committee 6. Climate Change and Migration: The UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement 7. Following the Finance: Building the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage 8. Conclusion: The End of Governing Acknowledgments Notes References Index
SynopsisA searing account of how the international community is trying--and failing--to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries. Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for the planet. Yet, each country experiences these losses differently, and reaching even inadequate political agreements is fraught with contestation. Governing the End untangles the complex relationship between deteriorating environmental conditions, high politics, and everyday diplomatic practices, focusing on the United Nations' agreement to address "loss and damage" and subsequent battles over implementation. Lisa Vanhala looks at the differing assumptions and strategic framings that poor and rich countries bring to bear and asks why some norms emerge and diffuse while others fail to do so. Governing the End is based on ethnographic observation of eight years of UN meetings and negotiations and more than one hundred and fifty interviews with diplomats, policymakers, UN secretariat staff, experts, and activists. It explores explicit political contestation, as well as the more clandestine politics that have stymied implementation and substantially reduced the scope of compensation to poor countries. In doing so, Governing the End elucidates the successes and failures of international climate governance, revealing the importance of how ideas are constructed and then institutionally embodied.
LC Classification NumberK3585.5.V36 2025
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