Pernille Almlund

Rethinking Climate Change Research

Clean Technology, Culture and Communication
Herausgeber: Jespersen, Per Homann

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Produktbeschreibung

The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of researching climate change through a multi-disciplinary approach; namely through cultural studies, communication studies, and clean-technology studies. These three dimensions taken together have the ability to constitute a positive agenda for climate change science in its broader understanding. To cope with the climate change challenge, not only do we need new energy efficient technologies, other ways of living, and new ways to communicate but we especially need new ways to start thinking about climate change across disciplines and backgrounds. We need to begin thinking across engineering, cultural science and communication in order to create innovative solutions, as well as to generate optimistic and progressive narratives about the future. Accentuating these 'softer' scientific disciplines, their overlaps, and the positive discourses they can create, this book provides some more profoundly researched themes pertaining to climate change and by that, strengthening the analytical as well as the integrative approaches toward the fundamental questions at stake.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9781409428664
• ISBN-10: 1409428664
• Artikelnr.: 41248484

Autorenporträt

Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and Sÿren Riis, all at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction; Introduction to Section 1: Towards a New Agenda for
Climate Change Research; 2: Clean Technology; Introduction to Section 2:
Climate Change and Clean Technology; 1: What is CleanTech? - Unraveling the
Buzzword; 2: Local Transition Strategies for Low Carbon Construction and
Housing - Studies of Innovative Danish Municipalities; 3: The Development
of Non-fossil Energy Systems in the Absence of Strong Climate Change Global
Governance; 4: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation in the Design of
Low-carbon Energy Technologies - a Case Study of the Lighting Sector; 5:
Using Sustainability Games to Elicit Moral Hypotheses from Scientists and
Engineers; 3: Culture; Introduction to Part 3: Climate Change and Culture;
5: Nature, Climate Change and the Culture of Social Sciences; 6: Climate
Change Knowledge and Social Movement Theory 1; 7: The Matter of Climate
Change: What It Is and How to Be Concerned With It; 8: Education, Active
Citizenship and Applied Social Intelligence: some Democratic Tools to Meet
the Threat of Climate Change 1; 9: Sustainability Means Ethics and This is
a Cultural Revolution; 10: Coping with Climate Change: Social Science and
the Case of Multi-site Living; 4: Communication; Introduction to Part 4:
Climate Change and Communication; 11: Challenges to Climate Change
Communication Through Mass Media in Bangladesh: a Developing Country
Perspective; 12: Could Films Help to Save the World from Climate Change? A
Discourse Exploration of Two Climate Change Documentary Films and an
Analysis of their Impact on the UK Printed Media; 13: Communicating the
Political Act of Switching off the Light: Mediating Citizen Action through
'Boundary Acts' in the Earth Hour and Vote Earth Global Media Events; 14:
Climate Activism and the Mass Media: Potentially a Politically Challenging
Debate; 15: Negotiating and Communicating Climate