Climate Cultures in Europe and North America (eBook, ePUB)

New Formations of Environmental Knowledge and Action
Redaktion: Heimann, Thorsten; Christmann, Gabriela; Kusenbach, Margarethe; Sommer, Jamie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000625042
• Artikelnr.: 64114399

Autorenporträt

Thorsten Heimann is a sociologist, cultural scientist, and Research Associate at the Research Center for Sustainability, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. Since 2020 he has been a strategic advisor for "Green Culture and Sustainability" for the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media in Germany. Jamie Sommer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Margarethe Kusenbach is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Gabriela Christmann is a sociologist and Head of the Research Group "Social Innovations in Rural Areas" at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner (near Berlin), Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1 Introduction Examining Climate Cultures in Europe and North America
PART II Contexts 1 Climate Cultures 2 Excavating Transatlantic Climates: An
Archeology of Climate Discourse between Germany and the United States PART
III Europe 3 Capturing Climate-Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Climate
Change Debates in Germany 4 Unusual Suspects: Urban Change Agents for
Climate Change Mitigation in Germany 5 Fractured Climate Cultures in
Depopulated Southern Spanish Communities 6 Cultural Perception and
Adaptation to Climate Change among Reindeer Saami Communities in Finland
PART IV North America 7 Contested Climate Cultures: Frame Resonance
Disputes within the US Environmental Movement over Geoengineering Proposals
8 The Politics of a Sustainable Coast: Competing Adaptation Cultures in
Southeastern Louisiana 9 Playing Hide and Seek: Adapting Climate Cultures
in Troubled Political Waters in Georgia, United States