Climate change multiple

Introduction Concerns about the climate are not new to the twentieth and twenty-first century. Historians have highlighted the ways in which populations have been governed to live with, work in and manage different kinds of climates (e.g. see Fleming and Jankovic 2011). Yet the concept of ‘global climate change’ has become undoubtedly powerful in the latter half of the twentieth century and has been adopted in diverse calls for societal intervention in the name of defending sound science, a stable climate and enhancing sustainability. The contributions in this book illustrate the diverse mechanisms, practices, discourses and rationalities of policy interventions to govern for and through the global climate. While there is a substantive policy literature exploring these topics, the contributions here provide innovative and conceptually convincing demonstrations of the value of Foucauldian governmentality approaches (on their own or in co-ordination with other conceptual frames) to understanding climate governance.