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1Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
The British Journal of Sociology
|January 18, 2020
Summary
Current climate change policies are inadequate. A new "posthuman" policy, viewing humans as part of the environment, is needed for effective environmental sustainability and addressing climate change threats.
Area of Science:
- Environmental policy analysis
- Climate change studies
- New materialism ontology
Background:
- Over 30 years of policy efforts to address environmental sustainability and climate change.
- Questionable adequacy of current policies in social, political, economic, and scientific dimensions.
Purpose of the Study:
- Theorize and develop the concept of a "policy assemblage" using new materialist ontology.
- Critically interrogate four major climate change policy perspectives.
- Establish a "posthuman" policy framework for climate change.
Main Methods:
- Materialist analysis of climate change and policy interactions.
- Critical examination of liberal environmentalism, UN sustainable development, green capitalism, and no-growth economics.
- Conceptual development of a posthuman policy framework.
Main Results:
- Analysis reveals limitations and omissions in existing climate change policies.
- None of the interrogated policies are deemed adequate or appropriate for successful climate change mitigation.
- Identification of unique human capacities essential for addressing climate change within a posthuman framework.
Conclusions:
- Existing climate change policies are insufficient to address environmental sustainability.
- A posthuman perspective, integrating humans within the environment, is necessary.
- Development of a sociologically, scientifically, and politically adequate posthuman climate change policy is proposed.
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