Society and Climate

Transformations and Challenges

Nico Stehr, Amanda Machin

• Publisher: WSPC
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9789813272446
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Warming & Climate Change
• Index: Biological Sciences

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 certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental conditions.

In a comprehensive and accessible way, this book:

Drawing on the insights of various disciplines and citing numerous examples, Society and Climate probes the interplay between society, science and climate, and warns against making any easy assumptions.

Contents:

• Introduction: Society, Nature, Climate:
  • The Nature of Weather
  • The Climate of Science
  • The Climate of Society
  • 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
  • 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
  • Understanding Change?
• Climate as Determinant:
  • Climate Works?
  • Ellsworth Huntington
  • Climate Determinism: A Critique
  • Climate Determinism: A Revival?
  • Climate Matters
• Climate as Public Perception:
  • Trusting the Climate
  • Mistrusting the Climate
  • Distrusting the Science
  • Social Change?
• Climate as a Policy Issue:
  • Scientific Policy
  • Economic Policy
  • Regulatory Policy
  • Climate Policy: Who Decides?
• Summary and Prospects

Readership: Undergraduate students studying or contemplating the study of environmental science, and readers interested in understanding the relationship between climate, society, and science, and the potential socio-political implications of these processes. Climate Change;Society;Science;Politics;Anthropocene00

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Overview
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Society, Nature, Climate
• Chapter 2: Climate as Scientific Object
• Chapter 3: Climate as Cycle and Change
• Chapter 4: Climate as Determinant
• Chapter 5: Climate as Public Perception
• Chapter 6: Climate as Policy Issue
• Chapter 7: Summary and Prospects
• Author Index
• Subject Index