Description: A study of the emergence of climate change as a political concern in the international arena since the 1950s, and how international stakeholders have responded to it.
Brief description: Ruth A. Morgan is Director of the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University, Australia. She has published widely on the climate and water histories of Australia and the British Empire.
Review Quotes:
"The importance of this work is not easily overstated. With its timeliness, scholarly rigour, and readability, this excellent study contributes substantially to our knowledge of climate science and diplomacy." --Australian Book Review
"Amid the proliferation of climate change literature, Ruth Morgan's Climate Change and International History stands out ... Up-to-date and richly sourced, this will be required reading for this reviewer's climate politics and governance students, and will appeal to those in political science, environmental studies, and science and technology studies programs... Highly recommended." --CHOICE "The author's main contribution to the field is her presentation of a multidimensional narrative that integrates and contextualizes such a vast and complex subject. This ensures that the book will occupy a prominent place in the historiography of climate change." --H-Soz-Kult "Ruth A. Morgan's Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice appears with urgent relevance amid intensifying, intertwined crises of climate and international politics...Morgan reveals that these crises have deeper roots and involve a wider range of actors than often appreciated in scholarship. In doing so, she accomplishes something rare among histories of climate (in)justice: cause for hope." --H-Net Reviews "Climate Change in International History would fit well in the classroom, but it would be equally at home on a researcher's bookshelf ... Morgan's work will prove essential to the field moving forward." --Journal of Modern History