Pernille Almlund

Rethinking Climate Change Research (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317064367
• Artikelnr.: 44875608

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