A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Norwine, Jim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Climate change.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Environment.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Environment, general.

In this book, an international team of environmental and social scientists explain two powerful current change-engines and how their effects, and our responses to them, will transform Earth and humankind into the 22nd-century (c.2100).  This book begins by detailing the current state of knowledge ab...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Imagining the Unimaginable by Jim Norwine
• Section A Setting the Stage: Chapter 2 Estrangement: A Beginner’s Guide to the Strangeness of the World by      Jonathan M. Smith
• Chapter 3 Global Climate Change by Gerald R. North
• Chapter 4 An Evolving Worldview: Culture-shift in University Students by Michael Bruner, John Davenport, and Jim Norwine: Section B Imagining a World: General Impacts and Implications: Chapter 5 Field Notes from the Future: Environmental Conditions at Four Locali- ties in 2100 by Michael Jennings
• Chapter 6 Getting from Here to There: Policy Pathways to Address Human                 Mobility in the Context of Climate Change by Koko Warner
• Chapter 7 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Thoughts on Possible Outcomes by John Davenport: Section C Imagining a World: Specific Regional Impacts and Implications: Chapter 8 Europe 2050-2100: Imagining New Lifeways/Lifestyles by Anke Uhlenwinkel and Niem Huynh
• Chapter 9 The Projected Death of the Fertile Crescent by Pinhas Alpert, Fengjun Jin, and Akio Kitoh
• Chapter 10 The Future of the Middle East by Yilmaz Ari, Ilhan Kaya, and Hakki Yazici
• Chapter 11 Imagined Lifeways in North America ca. 2100 by Mark Bjelland, Michael Bruner, and John Davenport
• Chapter 12  Climate Change and Its Impact on Cultural Shifts in East and Southeast Asia by Niem Huynh, Wen Lin, L. Renee Ness, Darlene Occena-Gutierrez, and Duy Xuân Trần: Section D Inhabiting an Imagined World: Better or Worse? Four Interpretations
• Chapter 13 The Postmodern Environment by Gladden J. Pappin
• Chapter 14 Blissful Devolution: Our Rolling Judgment Day by David J. Nemeth
• Chapter 15 The Guilt of Hollow Men: Global Warming as Postmodern Apocalypse by Jonathan M. Smith
• Chapter 16 Colliding with Reality: Liquid Modernity and the Environment by Arran Gare
• Chapter 17 Epilogue: The End of the Artic as We Know It by Robert Harriss
• Index.     .