Rohan Lloyd explores the relationship between scientific management and preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, with the understanding of anthropogenic climate change marking a pivotal point.
“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.
Michael C. MacCracken analyses issues of contention within the climate change discussions in Washington, and stresses the need for strong leadership.
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”
Michael Toman discusses values, costs, and benefits in the economics of climate change, and sketches ways in which technical economic analyses could be integrated with public dialogue.
In this editorial, Clive L. Spash discusses current economic and political motives as well as values and beliefs surrounding environmental issues.
Die Klimazwiebel is a bilingual (German and English) climate blog started by a group of natural and social scientists in 2009. It aims for sustainable dialogue between climate warners and skeptics alike.
Contextualizing Disaster presents “highly visible” disasters as well as “slow and hidden” disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
Kluiving and Hamel explore why the Anthropocene emerged. They suggest that an analysis of global changes in human niche construction using geoarchaeological data offers new perspectives on the causes and effects of the Anthropocene.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
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