Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change (eBook, PDF)

Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future
Redaktion: Bhaskar, Roy; Parker, Jenneth; Naess, Petter; Høyer, Karl Georg; Frank, Cheryl

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of linked phenomena which both constitute and connect to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136996702
• Artikelnr.: 43820716

Autorenporträt

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Reclaiming Reality, Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc, Reflection on Meta-reality and From Science to Emancipation. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. Currently he is a World Scholar at the University Of London Institute of Education. .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1
Contexts of Interdisciplinarity Chapter 2
Coda to 'Contexts of Interdisciplinarity': The Case of Climate Change
Critical Realist Interdisciplinarity: A Research Agenda to Support Action on Global Warming Chapter 3
Seven Theses on CO 2
reductionism and Its Interdisciplinary Counteraction Chapter 4
The Dangerous Climate of Disciplinary Tunnel Vision Chapter 5
Consumption
A Missing Dimention in Climate Policy Chapter 6
Global Warming and Cultural/Media Articulations of Emerging and Contending Social Imaginaries: A Critical Realist Perspective Chapter 7
Climate change: Brokering Interdisciplinarity across the Physical and Social Sciences Chapter 8
The Need for a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Development in a Hot and Crowded World Chapter 9
Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change Chapter 10
Technological Idealism
The Case of the Thorium Fuel Cycle: A Critical Analysis Chapter 11
Food Crisis and Global Warming: Critical Realism and the Need to Re
institutionalize Science Chapter 12
Towards a Dialectics of Knowledge and Care in the Global System Chapter 13
Epilogue
A Conference Tourist and His Confessions: On the Travelling Circus of Climate Change