Multimedia | interviews and talks
Arroyo, Vicki, "Let's Prepare For Our New Climate"
Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.
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Perspectives Article
Historicizing Risk
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale, and asks how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
“Agricultural Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Near East”
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
Multimedia | journal article
"Laudato si' and the Postsecularism of the Environmental Humanities"
Handley’s article for the Special Commentary section explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, questioning the postsecularity of the environmental humanities and the continued dismissal of spiritual and religious discourse in the context of establishing an environmental ethos.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Gonzalo Lizarralde, author of Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Gonzalo Lizarralde is interviewed on his recent book, Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed.
Perspectives Article
Rescuing Climate Data as a Scientific and Communication Bridge
Ashcroft explores how citizen science can connect professional scientists and the public.
Exhibition chapter
Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jeroen Oomen and Adam Sébire delve into the world of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies through a video triptych in Hellisheiði in Iceland. The three screens, shown here in one video, capture experiments at Hellishei∂i, aspects of the sequestered CO2, and an imagined future.
Perspectives Article
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.
Multimedia | film profile
Warmzeit [Warming Period]
This film depicts the lives of ordinary people around the world as they become increasingly impacted by climate change.
Perspectives Article
Whose Anthropocene? A Response
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.