In Search of Climate Politics

Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His books include the Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Climate Capitalism (with Peter Newell, 2010, Cambridge) and the prize-winning Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007, Cambridge). He was a Lead Author for the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Making Climate Policy In The City Of Ottawa; 3. Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting In Ottawa; 4. Complete Streets and Its Discontents; 5. Intensifying Conflicts: Agonism and The Politics Of Urban Spatial Transformations; 6. Mapping Climate Experimentation In Ottawa; 7. The University Of Ottawa: Strategic Energy Management, Experimentation, and Repoliticization; 8. Renewing Democratic Politics: The Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative; 9. Conclusions; Index.