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A world after climate change and culture-shift
Abstract
In this book, an international team of environmental and social scientists explain two powerful current change-engines and how their effects, and our responses to them, will transform Earth and humankind into the 22nd-century (c.2100). This book begins by detailing the current state of knowledge about these two ongoing, accelerating and potentially world-transforming changes: climate change, in the form of global warming, and a profound emerging shift of normative cultural condition toward the assumptions and values often associated with so-called postmodernity, such as tolerance, diversity, self-referentiality, and dubiety replaced with certainty. Next, the contributors imagine, explain and debate the most likely consequent transformations of human and natural ecologies and economies that will take place by the end of the 21st-century. In 16 compellingly original, provocative and readable chapters, A World after Climate Change and Culture-Shift presents a one-of-a-kind vision of our current age as a "hinge" or axial century, one driven by the most radical combined change of nature and culture since the rise of agriculture at the end of the last Ice Age some 10 millennia ago. This book is highly recommended to scholars and students of the environmental and social sciences, as well as to all readers interested in how changes in nature and culture will work together to reshape our world and ourselves.
Details | Table of Contents
imagining the unimaginable
pp.1-11
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_1a beginner's guide to the strangeness of the world
pp.15-23
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_2culture-shift in university students
pp.43-62
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_4environmental conditions at four localities in 2100
pp.67-87
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_5policy pathways to address human mobility in the context of climate change
pp.89-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_6thoughts on possible outcomes
pp.113-138
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_7imagining new lifeways/lifestyles
pp.141-191
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_8pp.245-302
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_12our Rolling judgment day
pp.327-349
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_14global warming as postmodern apocalypse
pp.351-362
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_15liquid modernity and the environment
pp.363-392
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_16the end of the arctic as we know it
pp.393-403
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_17Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2014
Pages: 410
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-7352-3
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-7353-0
Full citation:
Norwine Jim (2014) A world after climate change and culture-shift. Dordrecht, Springer.