Climate Change and the Humanities

Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

By: Alexander Elliott (Editor), James Cullis (Editor), Vinita Damodaran (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 November 2017

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Chapter 1: Introduction - Alexander Elliott.- Historical.- Chapter 2: The Importance of the Humanities to the Climate Change Debate; Alexander Elliott and James Cullis.- Chapter 3: Understanding climate change historically; Richard Staley.- Chapter 4: The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern; Richard Grove.- Chapter 5: The Locality in the Anthropocene: perspectives on the Environmental History of Eastern India: Vinita Damodaran.- Chapter 6. Plastic Daffodils: The Pastoral, the Picturesque, and Cultural Environmentalism; Nick Groom.- Contemporary.- Chapter 7: Cli-fi? Literature, ecocriticism, history; Martin Ryle.- Chapter 8: Climate Change as a Challenge to Philosophy; Gideon Calder.- Chapter 9: Belief in change: the role of media and communications in driving action on climate change; Catherine Happer.- Future.- Chapter 10: Climate Change and Future Aesthetics; Emily Brady.- Chapter 11: Investment without return: On futures that will never be ours; Paul Davies.- Chapter 12: Climate Change and Moral Philosophy; Tim Mulgan.

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"The chapters in this volume offer nuanced and detailed perspectives on the challenges of knowing and representing climate change. ... they provide an extensive overview of a set of cross-temporal environmental themes and make a forceful case for interdisciplinary conversations on climate change." (Ramya K Tella, Ecology, Economy and Society, Vol. 3 (1), January, 2020)

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