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

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Greschke, Heike (HerausgeberIn) , Tischler, Julia (HerausgeberIn)
Dokumenttyp: Book/Monograph
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht s.l. Springer Netherlands Imprint: Springer 2015
Schriftenreihe:SpringerLink Bücher
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3
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Verfasserangaben:edited by Heike Greschke, Julia Tischler
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: grounding global climate changePart 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.