Climate for change/ Peter Newell

1 Politics in a warming world: introduction ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Why these actors? ; 1.3 Why global warming? ; 1.4 Methodology ; 1.5 Scope ; 1.6 Background: emerging themes in global climate politics ; Negotiating blocs ; Europe ; The United States. The North-South dimension Divisions within the South ; Policy options after Rio ; Kyoto and beyond ; 2 Existing approaches: problems and limitations ; 2.1 Existing approaches to explaining global environmental politics ; 2.2 Critique of regime approaches. 2.3 Current approaches to the study of global warming 2.4 Reconfiguring political influence ; 3 Knowledge, frames and the scientific community ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Structural factors/bargaining assets ; 3.3 Agenda-setting ; 3.4 Negotiation-bargaining ; 3.5 Implementation. 3.6 Conclusions 4. Climate of opinion: the agenda-setting role of the mass media ; 4.1 Introduction: agenda-setting ; 4.2 A note on methodology ; 4.3 Public opinion and international environmental regimes ; 4.4 The importance of the media in shaping public opinion ; Direct effects. From direct to indirect Indirect effects ; 4.5 Media constructions of global warming ; The scientific dimension ; Impacts ; The economic dimension ; Declining attention to the international ; 4.6 Explanations and consequences ; The political economy approach ; Social dimensions.