This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts... Lees meer.

The selection of texts is representing Paul Crutzen s scientific oeuvre as his research interests span from ozone depletion to the climatic impacts of biomass burning the consequences of a worldwide atomic war the Nuclear Winter - to geoengineering and the Anthropoce... Lees meer.

Creating a visual and written timeline of the age of human domination The Human Age reveals how this era was born the ways in which it is impacting us and our planet now and the outlook for the future. The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geologic... Lees meer.

From Ducks Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise how climate anxiety permeates our culture The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe with weather and water wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given t... Lees meer.

Theories and opinions about climate change abound from those claiming human-induced climate change is already beyond control to those who express scepticism about the real extent of these changes. How should we weigh up the scientific evidence and what role does clim... Lees meer.

Climate change is among the world s most important problems and solutions based on emission cuts or adapting to new climates remain elusive. One set of proposals receiving increasing attention among scientists and policymakers is solar geoengineering also known as s... Lees meer.

This volume looks at the ways in which climate change education relates to broader ideas of justice equity and social transformation and ultimately calls for a rapid response to the need for climate education reform. This volume looks at the ways in which climate... Lees meer.

What is the place of theology in the public discourse around anthropogenic climate change. How do we understand the human relationship to Earth and the ecology of which we are a part. How can we account for the human attempt to dominate nature and the devastation we h... Lees meer.

This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological ecological geological and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature and forecloses a more inclusive politics around... Lees meer.

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts by authors including Lord Byron William Cobbett Sir Stamford Raffles Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley in relation t... Lees meer.

The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The book outlines... Lees meer.

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of moral frameworks tha... Lees meer.

Since the Industrial Revolution humans have transformed the Earth s atmosphere committing our planet to more extreme weather rising sea levels melting polar ice caps and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth s ecosystems has been call... Lees meer.

In the era of the Anthropocene artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes argue that a number of artists in this period work in... Lees meer.

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