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Climates of Migration
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
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Multimedia | podcast
ASLE EcoCast: Climate Changes Teaching: A Conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray and Stephen Siperstein
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Sarah Jaquette Ray and Stephen Siperstein on the topic of climate change pedagogy.
Multimedia | journal article
“A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption”
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”
Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
Decentering Science in Climate Communication
Walsh argues that science should be decentered in communicating about climate change.
Exhibition chapter
Mountains, Glaciers, and Climate | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition, “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Multimedia | journal article
"Glacial Time and Lonely Crowds: The Social Effects of Climate Change as Internet Spectacle"
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Influence of Climate Fiction: An Empirical Survey of Readers"
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.
Multimedia | journal article
“Adaptation Measures to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation in the Chambal Basin”
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
Multimedia | book profile
The Great Transformation. Climate - Can We Beat the Heat?
The comic The Great Transformation. Climate - Can We Beat the Heat? illustrates the 2011 report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). In nine episodes, WBGU members take on the role of comic heroes to explain the Great Transformation towards a climate-friendly, sustainable society.