Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

By Alex Elliott

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349715719
• ISBN13: 9781349715718
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"