Matthew Paterson
Professor, Department of Politics and Research Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Lethbridge
Participates in 2 items
Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Manchester and Research Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute. His research focuses on the political economy of global environmental change. His publications include Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Automobile Politics (2007), Climate Capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy (with Peter Newell, 2010), and Transnational Climate Change Governance (with HarrietBulkeley and 8 others, Cambridge University Press 2014). He is currently focused on the political economy and cultural politics of climatechange, and starting to work on the networked character of global climate governance.
Sessions in which Matthew Paterson participates
Wednesday 26 May, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:29 AM EDT -
9:30 AM EDT |
1 minute
10:50 AM EDT -
12:05 PM EDT |
1 hour 15 minutes
Integrating the social sciences into knowledge production about climate change is widely recognized as difficult, for various reasons. But political science presents a particular sort of problem for such integrated knowledge production. When produced for policy-oriented processes, where policy-makers may themselves get to revise and approve the text of a document (as is the case for IPCC reports), knowledge focused on explaining and evaluating the performance of political systems on climate c...