Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities
Excerpts from the book Imaginative Ecologies, including an interview with Christof Mauch.
Excerpts from the book Imaginative Ecologies, including an interview with Christof Mauch.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua are interviewed on their recent book, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
“Understanding the human implications of climate change,” the tagline of the Weather Matters hub, reveals it as a space for conversation among scholars and stakeholders concerned about climate change.
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
Matthew MacLellan argues that Garrett Hardin’s primary object of critique in his influential “The Tragedy of the Commons” is not the commons or shared property at all—as is almost universally assumed by Hardin’s critics—but is rather Adam Smith’s theory of markets and its viability for protecting scarce resources.
The science of palynology has proved to be a good tool to reconstruct the past, to build up archaeological scenarios and to record climatic changes during the Holocene period. However, the terms employed to denote climate, like arid and humid, are often used without proper definitions, ignoring intricacies of climate…
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jeff Sebo is interviewed on his book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes.
The Great Warming is a three-part Discovery Channel television series on the effects of anthropogenic global warming. Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, it takes a trip around the world to reveal how climate change is affecting people’s lives.
Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.