Governing the End

The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage

Lisa Vanhala (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
9780226842974 (ISBN)

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A 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.

Lisa Vanhala is professor of political science at University College London. She is the author of Making Disability Rights a Reality?: Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization and coeditor of Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage: The National Turn.

List 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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Series in Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	5 halftones, 2 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-13	9780226842974 / 9780226842974
Zustand	Neuware