Grounding Global Climate Change Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences /

This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of global warming. While most of social climate change research focuses on how people deal with environment...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Greschke, Heike (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tischler, Julia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: grounding global climate change
  • Part I: Interdisciplinarity, climate research and the role of the social sciences
  • Ecological novelty: towards an interdisciplinary understanding of ecological change in the Anthropocene
  • Predicting the past? Integrating climate and culture during historical famines
  • Anthropology in the Anthropocene: sustainable development, climate change and interdisciplinary research
  • Part II: Searching for the social facts of global climate change: ethnographic perspectives
  • Climate and mobility in the West African Sahel: conceptualising the local dimensions of the environment and migration nexus
  • Animal belongings: human-non human interactions and climate change in the Canadian Subarctic
  • Part III: Spinning global webs of local knowledges: collaborative and comparative ethnographies
  • The social facts of climate change: an ethnographic approach
  • Comparing climate worlds: theorising across ethnographic fields
  • Towards imagining the big picture and the finer details: exploring global applications of a local and scientific knowledge exchange methodology
  • Part IV: Concluding statement
  • You ain’t seen nothing yet: a death-defying look at the future of the climate debate.