Our Fight Has Just Begun: Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America

Abstract

between environmental policy and financial policy in the Anthropocene. Accounting for global environmental governance in an encompassing manner is a challenge. The benefit of this book is that it is wide in both scope and detail. It acknowledges a wide set of actors and illustrates with examples how current institutions can change to strengthen the democratic norms of global environmental governance. Climate change poses insurmountable challenges for political, social, economic, and administrative systems from local to global levels. In other words, for humans, climate change is not foremost an environmental problem that can be solved by technical and managerial solutions. Baber and Bartlett argue that climate change rather constitutes a political space in which a large set of actors—public, private, and NGOs—engages in contestation and collaboration over evolving regimes of climate governance. It is this political space that the authors sketch throughout this book. In that respect, the book is like a patchwork quilt of observations (to use Baber and Barlett’s expression), a pattern that may serve as a guide for identifying new and important questions to address.