Understanding the challenge that climate change poses and crafting appropriate adaptation
and mitigation mechanisms requires input from the breadth of the natural and social …

Global environmental change is more extreme than at any other time in recorded history. Its
local realities increasingly uproot large numbers of people. Global climate change is …

Shortly after James Hansen's June 1988 Senate testimony placed anthropogenic global
warming on the public agenda in the United States, organized efforts to deny the reality and …

This book is about the idea of climate, an enduring idea of the human mind and also a
powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the phenomenon …

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to
engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative …

Information about climate and how it responds to increased greenhouse gas concentrations
depends heavily on insight gained from numerical simulations by coupled climate models …

The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology's engagement with climate change,
this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to …

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's
Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of …

The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing
with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ignorance and surprise belong …

Anthropogenic climate change has been presented as the archetypal global problem,
identified by the slow work of assembling a global knowledge infrastructure, and demanding …