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Author | : Wolfgang Behringer |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745645291 |
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Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals.
Author | : Tom Bristow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317561449 |
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Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.
Author | : Tom Bristow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317561430 |
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Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.
Author | : James Rodger Fleming |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199885095 |
Download Historical Perspectives on Climate Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.
Author | : Andrew J. Hoffman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2015-03-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0804795053 |
Download How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is the product of contrasting, deeply entrenched worldviews. This brief examines what causes people to reject or accept the scientific consensus on climate change. Synthesizing evidence from sociology, psychology, and political science, Andrew J. Hoffman lays bare the opposing cultural lenses through which science is interpreted. He then extracts lessons from major cultural shifts in the past to engender a better understanding of the problem and motivate the public to take action. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate makes a powerful case for a more scientifically literate public, a more socially engaged scientific community, and a more thoughtful mode of public discourse.
Author | : Giuseppe Feola |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108422500 |
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Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.
Author | : Michael R. Dove |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2013-12-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1118605950 |
Download The Anthropology of Climate Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change. Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies, environmental sciences, science and technology studies, history of science, and conservation and development studies
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2018-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004356827 |
Download Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions.
Author | : H. H. Lamb |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780415127349 |
Download Climate, History and the Modern World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the inclusion of new material, preface and illustrations, this 2nd edition of Lamb's acclaimed book covers issues of past and present climates, impacts on human affairs and an understanding of the problems of forecasting.
Author | : Marek Kohn |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 9780571238163 |
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