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Rethinking Climate Change Research Pernille Almlund

Rethinking Climate Change Research By Pernille Almlund

Rethinking Climate Change Research by Pernille Almlund


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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.

Rethinking Climate Change Research Summary

Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean Technology, Culture and Communication by Pernille Almlund

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. To cope with the climate change challenge, not only do we need new energy efficient technologies, other ways of living, and new ways to communicate but we especially need new ways to start thinking about climate change across disciplines and backgrounds. We need to begin thinking across engineering, cultural science and communication in order to create innovative solutions, as well as to generate optimistic and progressive narratives about the future. Accentuating these 'softer' scientific disciplines, their overlaps, and the positive discourses they can create, this book provides some more profoundly researched themes pertaining to climate change and by that, strengthening the analytical as well as the integrative approaches toward the fundamental questions at stake.

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'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

About Pernille Almlund

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

Table of Contents

Contents: Section 1 Introduction: Introduction to section1: a new agenda for climate change research, Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and SA,ren Riis. Section 2 Clean-Technology: Introduction to section 2: climate change and clean-technology, Per Homan Jespersen; What is clean-tech? - unraveling the buzzword, Thomas Budde Christensen and Tyge KjA|r; Local transition strategies for low carbon construction and housing - studies of innovative Danish municipalities, Jesper Holm, Inger Stauning and Bent SA,ndergA[yen]rd; The development of non-fossil energy systems in the absence of strong climate change global governance, Rikke LybA|k, Ole Erik Hansen and Jan Andersen; Opportunities and challenges for innovation in the design of low-carbon energy technologies - a case study of the lighting sector, Araceli Bjarklev, Kent Laursen, Jan Andersen and Tyge KjA|r; Using sustainability games to elicit moral hypotheses from scientists and engineers, Evan Selinger, Thomas P. Seager, Susan Spierre and David Schwartz. Section 3 Culture: Introduction to section 3: climate change and culture, SA,ren Riis; Nature, climate change and the culture of social sciences, Reiner Grundmann, Markus Rhomberg and Nico Stehr; Climate change knowledge and social movement theory, Andrew Jamison; The matter of climate change: what it is and how to be concerned with it, Gert Goeminne; Education, active citizenship and applied social intelligence: some democratic tools to meet the threat of climate change, Joshua Forstenzer; Sustainability means ethics and this is a cultural revolution, Michel Puech; Coping with climate change: social science and the case of multi-site living, JA,rgen Ole BA|renholdt. Section 4 Communication: Introduction to part 4: climate change and communication, Pernille Almlund; Challenges to climate change communication through mass media in Bangladesh: a developing country perspective, Irene Neverla, Corinna LA thje and Shameem Mahmud; Could films help 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, Gabriela Ramirez Galindo; Communicating the political act of switching off the light: mediating citizen action through a boundarya (TM) acts in the Earth Hour and Vote Earth global media events, Paul McIlvenny; Climate activism and the mass media: potentially a politically challenging debate, Anders Danielsen; Negotiating and communicating climate, Pernilla Almlund; Index.

Additional information

GOR012421458
9781409428664
1409428664
Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean Technology, Culture and Communication by Pernille Almlund
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20120628
352
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