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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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Climate Justice
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Marcus Vogt discusses climate change as an issue of justice. Sustainability, in Vogt’s view, needs to look to the humanities—to philosophy, theology, sociology, history, and cultural studies—for accompanying critical perspectives.
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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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Rural Masculinities in Tension: Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Nicaragua
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.
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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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Let's Say It in Their Own Words
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
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Rifts or Bridges? Ruptures and Continuities in Human-Environment Interactions
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.
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Politics of Anthropocene Consumption: Dipesh Chakrabarty and Three College Courses
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.
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Taking Up Space: Men, Masculinity, and the Student Climate Movement
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.
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A Tale of Two Cities: Climate Policy in Münster and Dresden
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.