Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean Technology, Culture and Communication

ISBN-13: 9781138268715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Pernille Almlund; Per Homann Jespersen

Opis

The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of researching climate change through a multi-disciplinary approach; namely through cultural studies, communication studies, and clean-technology studies. These three dimensions taken together have the ability to constitute a positive agenda for climate change science in its broader understanding.

Recenzje

'Climate change is changing life. It just takes a quick glance at the news stream to see the impact climate has on everyday life. Whether it is drought causing a lack of food and water or it is monstrous rain squalls flooding everything - it affects people's lives. To identify solutions to our present challenges we need to look at climate change in the broadest sense of the word. This anthology aims to bring new ideas and perspectives to life by combining natural, human and social sciences. We need that.' Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Building 'This perfectly edited volume is part of the Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice series. The book is an eye-opener on possible switches in the international climate change debate, while showing that part of the solution is in our daily lifestyle and habits. The publication is most useful for students and researchers in environmental sciences, in particular in programmes with a strong interdisciplinary character. It is a must for consultants, policy makers and NGO collaborators who care about influencing the climate change debate and its impacts on our way of living.' International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Spis treści

1: Introduction; Introduction to Section 1: Towards a New Agenda for Climate Change Research; 2: Clean Technology; Introduction to Section 2: Climate Change and Clean Technology; 1: What is CleanTech? – Unraveling the Buzzword; 2: Local Transition Strategies for Low Carbon Construction and Housing – Studies of Innovative Danish Municipalities; 3: The Development of Non-fossil Energy Systems in the Absence of Strong Climate Change Global Governance; 4: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation in the Design of Low-carbon Energy Technologies – a Case Study of the Lighting Sector; 5: Using Sustainability Games to Elicit Moral Hypotheses from Scientists and Engineers; 3: Culture; Introduction to Part 3: Climate Change and Culture; 5: Nature, Climate Change and the Culture of Social Sciences; 6: Climate Change Knowledge and Social Movement Theory 1; 7: The Matter of Climate Change: What It Is and How to Be Concerned With It; 8: Education, Active Citizenship and Applied Social Intelligence: some Democratic Tools to Meet the Threat of Climate Change 1; 9: Sustainability Means Ethics and This is a Cultural Revolution; 10: Coping with Climate Change: Social Science and the Case of Multi-site Living; 4: Communication; Introduction to Part 4: Climate Change and Communication; 11: Challenges to Climate Change Communication Through Mass Media in Bangladesh: a Developing Country Perspective; 12: Could Films Help to Save the World from Climate Change? A Discourse Exploration of Two Climate Change Documentary Films and an Analysis of their Impact on the UK Printed Media; 13: Communicating the Political Act of Switching off the Light: Mediating Citizen Action through ‘Boundary Acts' in the Earth Hour and Vote Earth Global Media Events; 14: Climate Activism and the Mass Media: Potentially a Politically Challenging Debate; 15: Negotiating and Communicating Climate

O autorze

Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and Søren Riis, all at Roskilde University, Denmark.