"Tasks for Future Ecologists"
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
Anne K. Johnson tests the claims of cultural theory using the formation of climate change policies in Sweden, the United States, and Japan as case studies.
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”
Jouni Paavola’s editorial for the Environmental Values 17.
In this paper, Richard S. J. Tol discusses gaps in climate change research and speculates on possible sign and size of the impacts of climate change.
In this article Marc D. Davidson argues that governments are justified in addressing the potential for human induced climate damages on the basis of future generations’ rights to bodily integrity and personal property.
Handley’s article for the Special Commentary section explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, questioning the postsecularity of the environmental humanities and the continued dismissal of spiritual and religious discourse in the context of establishing an environmental ethos.
Micheal Richardson investigates the impact of envisioning climate catastrophe in three works, namely George Miller’s film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Marina Zurkow’s animation Slurb (2009), and Briohny Doyle’s novel The Island Will Sink (2016).
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson investigates the impact of climate fiction on American readers through a qualitative survey, and assesses the results based on concepts borrowed from ecocriticism, environmental psychology, and environmental communication.