Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
This presentation by Manfred Stähli and Marcel Hürlimann for the 2016 CCES Competence Center Environment and Sustainability conference entitled “Natural Hazards and Risks in Alpine Environments - From Science to Early Warning Systems” highlights the challenges and goals of weather forecasting related to climate-related disasters and emergency responses.
Libby Robin compares two major museum exhibitions on climate change that rely heavily on the IPCC models: Uppdrag Klimat (Mission: Climate Earth), at the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), Sweden; and EcoLogic, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.
Through an ethnographic account about the use of an electromagnetic water system in the Amish community, Nicole Welk-Joerger explores the conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene.
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
Kleemann argues that interdisciplinarity is key to successfully tackling climate change.
Walsh argues that science should be decentered in communicating about climate change.
Oomen argues that science has an important role in climate communication as a common ground and honest broker.
Ashcroft explores how citizen science can connect professional scientists and the public.