State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.
A review of how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time and in the future.
“Understanding the human implications of climate change,” the tagline of the Weather Matters hub, reveals it as a space for conversation among scholars and stakeholders concerned about climate change.
Martinez emphasizes the importance of adapting climate communication strategies to local situations.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua are interviewed on their recent book, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
Despite the devastating impact that flooding, drought and fire associated with the 1982/3 and 1997/8 El Nino events had on both the natural environment and human society, there is little information on the persistence or impact similar events may have had in the ‘deeper’ past…
Schur Petri demonstrates how local health workers can effectively communicate climate risks on the ground.
The science of palynology has proved to be a good tool to reconstruct the past, to build up archaeological scenarios and to record climatic changes during the Holocene period. However, the terms employed to denote climate, like arid and humid, are often used without proper definitions, ignoring intricacies of climate…