Rethinking Climate Change Research : Clean Technology, Culture and Communication

Almlund, Pernille (EDT); Jespersen, Per Homann (EDT); Riis, Soren (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1409428664 / ISBN 13: 9781409428664

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Climate Change Research : Clean Technology, Culture and Communication
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409428664
• ISBN 13: 9781409428664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. To cope with the climate change challenge, not only do we need new energy efficient technologies, other ways of living, and new ways to communicate but we especially need new ways to start thinking about climate change across disciplines and backgrounds. We need to begin thinking across engineering, cultural science and communication in order to create innovative solutions, as well as to generate optimistic and progressive narratives about the future. Accentuating these 'softer' scientific disciplines, their overlaps, and the positive discourses they can create, this book provides some more profoundly researched themes pertaining to climate change and by that, strengthening the analytical as well as the integrative approaches toward the fundamental questions at stake.

About the Author

Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and Søren Riis, all at Roskilde University, Denmark.