Society and climate transformations and challenges
Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of cer...
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World Scientific Publishing
2019
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: society, nature, climate. The nature of weather ; The climate of science ; The climate of society ; Conclusion: Climates of disagreement
- Climate as scientific object. Climate as average weather ; Measuring the climate ; The emergence of a new paradigm ; The discovery of the "greenhouse effect" ; Modelling the climate ; Conclusion: Climate as possible weather
- Climate as cycle and change. The history of the science of climate change ; Natural climate variability ; Anthropogenic climate change ; Measuring and modelling climate change ; The impact and inequality of climate change ; Conclusion: Understanding change
- Climate as determinant. Climate works? ; Ellsworth Huntington ; Climate determinism: a critique ; Climate determinism: a revival? ; Climate determinism: a comparison ; Conclusion: Climate matters
- Climate as public perception. Trusting the climate ; Distrusting the climate? ; Mistrusting the science? ; Conclusion: Social change?
- Climate as policy issue. Scientific policy ; Economic policy ; Regulatory policy ; Climate policy: who decides?
- Summary and prospects
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes