Andrew J. Hoffman

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Andrew J. Hoffman is Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 123mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9780804794220
• ISBN-10: 0804794227
• Artikelnr.: 41754950

Autorenporträt

Andrew J. Hoffman is Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
1A Cultural Schism
chapter abstract
Chapter 1 presents an overview of the arguments in this book. It also
presents data on the state of the scientific consensus on climate change,
and contrasts that with data on the lack of a social consensus on the
issue.
2Social Psychology and the Climate Change Debate
chapter abstract
Chapter 2 explores the social science of how we make sense of complex
scientific information, what we hear when these issues are raised and how
to conceptualize the cultural schism before us. It also presents the
sources of disagreement over climate change on four discrete elements of
distrust - distrust of the messengers, distrust of the process that creates
the message, distrust of the message itself and distrust of the solutions
that come from the message
3Sources of Organized Resistance
chapter abstract
Chapter 3 discusses the organized movements that seek to resist changes and
the role of both mainstream and new social media in assisting them.
Specifically, it outlines the two primary forms of structured resistance
that emerge from threatened economic interests and threatened ideological
interests.
4Bridging the Cultural Schism
chapter abstract
Chapter 4 explains the social science of how cultures change and offers
some suggested tactics and strategies for clarifying the public debate over
climate change. It presents four categories of tactics that address the
sources of resistance discussed in chapter 3 and mirror the four forms of
distrust presented in chapter 2: The messenger is as important as the
message, address the process by which the message was created, choose
messages that are accessible, and present solutions that represent a
commonly desired future.
5Historical Analogies for Climate Change
chapter abstract
Chapter 5 presents two examples of historic culture changes that can teach
us something about the cultural challenge we face on climate change. The
first is the debate over cigarette smoking and cancer, highlighting the
difference between a scientific consensus and a social consensus and the
process that leads from one to the other. The second is the debate over the
abolition of slavery, highlighting the magnitude of the cultural shift we
now face and the multiple pathways for achieving it.
6The Full Scope
chapter abstract
Chapter 6 concludes with a discussion of the importance of the full scope
of the social change that climate change represents. Climate change is part
of a large-scale shift that is taking place in human history. That larger
shift is called the Anthropocene, a new geologic epoch in which human
activities have a significant impact on the Earth's ecosystems.