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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Greschke, Heike (Editor), Tischler, Julia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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