Perspectives
Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
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Remembering Nature in Climate Change: Re-thinking Climate Science and Climate Communication through Critical Theory
Born uses Critical Theory to explore the role of science in climate communication.
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Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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Telling Stories of a Changed Climate: The Laki Fissure Eruption and the Interdisciplinarity of Climate History
Kleemann argues that interdisciplinarity is key to successfully tackling climate change.
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Climate Change and the Confluence of Natural and Human History: A Lawyer’s Perspective
This essay examines what the concept of the Anthropocene means for environmental law and policy. Humans can be viewed as both insider and outsider—as an integral part of nature, which we have a duty to protect, and as lord and master of the natural world, taking what we can for our own survival. Eagle explores how the choice of an insider or outsider view can influence political discussions regarding environmental regulation.
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Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at the Potential of Communicating Climate Change through the Novel
Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.
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Decentering Science in Climate Communication
Walsh argues that science should be decentered in communicating about climate change.
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Let's Say It in Their Own Words
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
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Experiencing Tomorrow: The Importance of Immersive Arts for Climate Science Communication
Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.
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Historicizing Risk
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.