Climate change and the humanities : historical, philosophical and interdisciplinary approaches to the contemporary environmental crisis /: historical, philosophical and interdisciplinary approaches to the contemporary environmental crisis. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexander Elliott, James Cullis and Vinita Damodaran.
• Editors: Elliott, Alexander; Cullis, James; Damodaran, Vinita
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.6; Climatic changes
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137551245
• Related ISBNs: 9781137551238
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