Climate Futures Across Disciplines A Next Generation Approach

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword: Piers Forster

Guest Note: From Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and Headingley

Preface and Acknowledgements: Susan Ann Samuel

List of Abbreviations

1.     Introduction: Towards Plural Climate Futures – The Work of a New Generation

Richard Beardsworth

Part I: Imagining Climate Futures

2.     What’s the story? Exploring the Communicative Capacities of Large Puppets in Creative Climate Change Communications

Bev Adams and Adam Strickson

3.     Back to the Future: Can the Climate 3 Million Years Ago Help Us Understand Our Future(s)?

Lauren Burton, Alan Haywood, Julia Tindall, Daniel Hill, and Aisling Dolan

4.     Embodied Futures: Arts Practices and Entangled Perceptual Possibilities

Benjamin Skinner

Part II: Designing Systems for Climate Futures

5.     Leveraging System Change for Fair Transport Decarbonisation

Vanessa Ternes

6.     Policy and Wholesale Electricity Market Futures for a Decarbonised Power System in Great Britain

Samuel Birch

7.     Water Governance and Institutional Adaptation for Climate Futures: The Case of West Java Province, Indonesia 

Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti

Part III: Governing Climate Futures

8.     Lost in Transition? Equity in Planning and Funding of Climate-Adaptive Urban Sanitation

Leonie Hyde-Smith, Anna Mdee, Katy Roelich, and Barbara Evans

9.     Infrastructures of Legitimacy: Navigating Strategic Responsibilities from Below in Ghana’s Mining Frontiers

Alesia Ofori and Vivian Nsiah

10.  The Future of Carbon Market Institutions in the Paris Era

Jihyung Joo, Jouni Paavola, and James Van Alstine

11.  Unpacking the Right to a Healthy Environment in a Political-Legal Discourse: A ‘Bold Action’ for Climate Futures?

Susan Ann Samuel

12.  Conclusion: In Pursuit of Hope — Lessons, Limits, and Future Directions

Susan Ann Samuel and Viktoria Spaiser

Index

Biography

Susan Ann Samuel is a lawyer in India and completed her PhD in International Relations from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on environmental law, climate politics, human rights, and sustainable development.

Richard Beardsworth is Professor of International Relations, Head of the School of Politics and International Studies, and Principal Fellow at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds. His present research focuses on international climate leadership, geopolitics and climate insurance, and reframing net zero in a populist age, with a view to carbon budget overshoot.

Viktoria Spaiser is Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science at the University of Leeds—School of Politics and International Studies, United Kingdom. She is also affiliated with the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures.

"Climate Futures Across Disciplines is a timely and thoughtful contribution to the climate conversation—rigorous in its scholarship, refreshingly global in scope, and enriched by the intergenerational collaboration between emerging researchers and seasoned mentors. This volume doesn’t just imagine climate futures; it models the kind of intellectual pluralism and cross-disciplinary dialogue we urgently need to shape these futures."

-          Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, India; Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

 

"Climate Futures Across Disciplines demonstrates the kind of creative, collaborative approach society needs in our quest to make real progress in addressing the existential threats posed by the climate and environmental crises. Weaving together art, science, politics and law, the book features a highly engaging and thought-provoking set of essays authored by a diversity of researchers, young and old, from the South and the North. Looking for hope? You'll find it here!"

-          Dr David Boyd, Professor at University of British Columbia and Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment