International Responses To The Crisis Of Climate Change Have Been Controversial, Contentious, And, To Date, Largely Unsuccessful. Despite Concern And Action For Over Two Decades, The Global Rise In Greenhouse Gas Emissions Has Yet To Be Arrested. Leigh Glover Argues That Efforts By The International Community To Control Climate Change Using Modernity's Usual Scientific, Economic, And Governmental Tools Are Inherently Flawed, So That The Problem Of Climate Change Defines Modernity's End In Ecological Terms. This Book Offers A New Way To Understand The Climate Change Problem And Is Concerned With Problems Of Modernity And Postmodernity In The Context Of Contemporary Environmental Thought. Focussing On The International Politics Surrounding The Un Agreement On Climate Change, The Framework Convention On Climate Change And Its Kyoto Protocol, The Author Examines This Important Issue Using The Key Aspect Of Climate Change Science, Global Environmental Politics, And Global Environmental Management.--book Jacket. 1 Climate Change And Modernity 1 -- Climate Change As Crisis 10 -- 2 Modernity And Postmodernity 19 -- Modernity 19 -- Postmodernity 36 -- Postmodernity And Environmentalism 46 -- Climate Change's Challenge To Modernity 65 -- 3 Climate Change Science; Modern Knowledge Of A Decreasingly Natural World 69 -- A History Of Climate Change Science 69 -- Climate Change Science And Modernity 86 -- A Political Economy Of Knowledge 92 -- Postmodern Science 104 -- Post-normal Science 126 -- 4 Climate Change Governance: An International Liberal-democratic System 137 -- Devising A System For Global Climate Governance 137 -- Liberal-democratic Climate Governance 167 -- Political Economy Of The Fccc 181 -- Searches For Ecological Justice In The Greenhouse 192 -- 5 Global Environmental Management Of Climate 211 -- Growing Threats And Expanding Goals 212 -- Global Climate Management 224 -- Political And Economic Interests In Global Climate Management 231 -- Critiques From Political Ecology 233 -- 6 Conclusion: Climate Change And Ecological Postmodernity 242 -- Modernity And Ecologism 242 -- Climate Change And The Limits Of Modernity 245 -- Alternative Pathways For Responding To Climate Change 250 -- Coda: Ecological Postmodemity 253. Leigh Glover. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [255]-282) And Index.