Climate Change Discourse in Russia

Marianna Poberezhskaya is Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.Teresa Ashe is Associate Lecturer and Honorary Fellow of the Geography Department at the Open University, UK.

• Preface1. Introduction: The Importance of the Soviet experienceTeresa Ashe2. Natural and anthropogenic climate change understanding in the Soviet Union, 1960s-1980sKatja Doose and Jonathan Oldfield3. Environmental Change and the Soviet Media before 1986: Dissident and officially sanctioned voicesAnna Mazanik 4. The Environment of an Energy Giant: Climate discourse framed by ‘hydrocarbon culture’Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen5. Traditional media and climate change in Russia: A case study of IzvestiiaMarianna Poberezhskaya6. Climate Change in Russia’s Far East: Controversial perspectivesBenjamin Beuerle 7. Russian industry discourses on climate changeEllie Martus

"Historical accounts of the science and politics of climate change have predominantly been drawn from the experience of the Anglosphere and western Europe. In this new volume, Marianna Poberezhskaya and Teresa Ashe, and colleagues, offer a different and valuable perspective, one drawn from the post-war Soviet experience. This collection of studies both challenge and broaden dominant western narratives and will be valuable for all cultural historians of climate change." -- Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK"This book brings together leading scholars of Russia’s present and past approaches to questions of climate change. The volume will be of great interest to those seeking to understand the complexity of climate change politics, as well as to readers seeking to better understand the science-policy interface in Russia and Russia’s approaches to complex, global policy problems." -- Elana Wilson Rowe, Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway"This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Russian attitudes towards climate change and of their policy implications. Despite its huge territorial extent and major role in global greenhouse gas emissions, Russia is frequently ignored or misunderstood in climate change debates. This book is therefore both timely and very much needed." -- Denis Shaw, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK