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The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change

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Author: Hannah Hughes, Aberystwyth University

Publication planned for: June 2024
availability: Not yet published - available from June 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009341530

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most significant global assessment bodies established, and it provides the most authoritative and influential assessments of climate change knowledge. This book examines the history and politics of the organisation, and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. Developing a new methodology, this book focuses on the actors, activities, and forms of authority affecting the IPCC's constructions of climate change. It describes how social, economic, and political dynamics influence all aspects of the organisation and its work. The book contributes to understanding the place of science in politics and politics in science, and offers important insights for designing new knowledge bodies for global environmental agreement-making. It is indispensable for students and researchers in environmental studies, international relations, and political science, as well as policymakers and anyone interested in the IPCC.
- Reframes climate politics as a struggle over global order and explores the IPCC's role in influencing the representation of the issue, helping readers understand the political forces behind the organisation as well as how this influences their perception of the climate crisis
- Presents an in-depth account of the IPCC's assessment practice to expand the reader's awareness of how an IPCC assessment is created and who has power in and over the process
- Its new methodological approach and analytical framework enables the systematic study of the different actors within the IPCC as well as the activities in which they are involved, thus describing the social order and culture of the organisation to help scholars address questions of power
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- Publication planned for: June 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009341530
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from June 2024
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms
1. Introduction
2. Knowledge, power and order in the construction of environmental politics
3. Situating the IPCC as a practice of writing
4. Analysing the IPCC as actors, activities and forms of authority
5. A new assessment cycle
6. The order of scientific assessment
7. The politics of approval
8. Concluding on the meaning and implications of writing climate change
References
Appendix: interview data.

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Hannah Hughes, Aberystwyth University
Hannah Hughes is a senior lecturer in International Politics of Climate Change at Aberystwyth University. Her research is focused on questions of knowledge and power and global asymmetries in how we know and collectively address global environmental degradation. Through her research, collaborations, and publications she hopes to shape central sites and processes of global environmental agreement-making. She has just published another book with Cambridge University Press on Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making that she co-edited with Alice Vadrot.