Schur Petri demonstrates how local health workers can effectively communicate climate risks on the ground.
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale wondering how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
Ashcroft explores how citizen science can connect professional scientists and the public.
In this essay, Watt recounts discussions with her students regarding lifestyle patterns; she shows how it will be necessary to change such patterns if we are to take climate change seriously from an economic and policy perspective, and to tackle it realistically.
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.
Jody Chan and Joe Curnow analyze the different gender and race dynamics in the student climate movement, asking why White men’s participation is constructed as being more valuable.
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.
