Book contents
- In Search of Climate Politics
- In Search of Climate Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In Search of Climate Politics
- 3 Making Climate Policy in the City of Ottawa
- 4 Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa
- 5 Complete Streets and Its Discontents
- 6 Intensifying Conflicts
- 7 Mapping Climate Experimentation in Ottawa
- 8 The University of Ottawa
- 9 Renewing Democratic Politics
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
4 - Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2021
- In Search of Climate Politics
- In Search of Climate Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In Search of Climate Politics
- 3 Making Climate Policy in the City of Ottawa
- 4 Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa
- 5 Complete Streets and Its Discontents
- 6 Intensifying Conflicts
- 7 Mapping Climate Experimentation in Ottawa
- 8 The University of Ottawa
- 9 Renewing Democratic Politics
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 2 we saw the limits of thinking about climate politics only through the notion of politics as a site or arena. There are two main aspects to this argument. One is that we miss lots of what ought to be regarded as political activity on climate change with this sort of one-dimensional account of politics. But the other is that the site itself becomes thought of as static, simply ‘there’. But political sites are historical creations, and are constantly, if often subtly, being remade. This chapter focuses on two, intertwined aspects of how Ottawa as a city is being made and remade as a political arena through climate change politics. The first of these is the entanglement of the City in a set of networks of municipalities, both generally and specifically on climate change. The second is through the principal governance strategy of these networks, carbon accounting, a strategy that is widely understood as depoliticizing. Both of these have structured how the City has dealt with climate change in specific ways, explored throughout the chapter.
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- In Search of Climate Politics , pp. 46 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021