In recent years, interest in climate change within sociology and media studies has rapidly increased and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field. This book contributes to filling this gap by examining how climate change has developed, critically assessing past and current interventions from a sociological perspective.

The book is the first to link climate change, the conceptualization of civilizing and de-civilizing historical trends in the work of Norbert Elias and the study of moral panics. These specialised yet growing academic fields of sociological...