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Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future book cover

1st Edition

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

Edited By Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl Georg Høyer, Petter Naess, Jenneth Parker Copyright 2010
280 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. In the opening chapter, Roy Bhaskar... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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"In the wake of yet another failure of international diplomacy to reach legally binding agreements limiting the emission of greenhouse gases, the appearance of this collection is both timely and welcome." – Journal of Critical Realism

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