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 Anthropocene concept highlights that we are now living in a new epoch of earth history where both the rapid accumulation of greenhouse gases and excessive consumption of natural resources endanger human and planetary wellbeing. Climate change is one of the main driv... Lees meer.
Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological predicament by focusing on the issues of history and freedom and how they relate to our present inability to render environ... 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.
Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term climate fiction has paradoxically exhausted the term s descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has conse... 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.
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.
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.
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.
A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in Mexico while the last chapter deals with sustainable peace through sustainability transition as transformative science concluding with a peace ecology perspe... Lees meer.
This book illustrates a geospatial technology approach to data mining techniques data analysis modelling risk assessment and visualization and management strategies in many elements of natural and societal hazards. This book delves into cutting-edge techniques based... 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... Lees meer.
A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene that offers fresh theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first prop... Lees meer.
Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term climate fiction has paradoxically exhausted the term s descriptive power and developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and consequently lost its... Lees meer.