Brill explores the relationship between “Science” and “the sciences”, and the political potential of the two, in the context of research cooperations involving indigenous groups.
Born uses Critical Theory to explore the role of science in climate communication.
Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.
Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships with other species and the planet.
Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe.
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
Whereas scientific evidence points towards substantial and urgent reduction in greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions, economic analysis of climate change seems to be out of sync by indicating a more gradual approach.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
