Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change

<p>This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which research and perspectives from the social sciences and humanities can be combined for a more effective understanding of climate change and its impacts. Climate change affects all aspects of life influencing personal lifestyle choices and political perceptions. Beyond legal and political measures the engagement of individuals and local communities has become essential for necessary systemic change. Understanding the complex human and social dynamics is key to achieving real change in favour of a resilient and low-carbon future.</p><p>This book highlights the theoretical and practical contributions of the social sciences and humanities in understanding how humans perceive and respond to climate change and the ways in which they can be combined to fight climate disruption and its effects. These interdisciplinary approaches draw upon fields such as communication sciences linguistics psychology anthropology educational sciences management studies and philosophy to explore the nexus between climate change and human and social dynamics in individual collective and political actions.</p><p>Drawing on a wide range of interesting case studies the book highlights opportunities for collaboration between disciplines by combining methodological and theoretical components and synthesizing the research results. Ultimately the book demonstrates that a more effective collaboration between the social sciences and humanities is required to fully understand the complexities of our relationship with climate change and to pave the way to a real ecological transition. The book will be of use to scholars students researchers and practitioners interested in communication studies psychology linguistics sociology philosophy management educational studies transition studies and connected fields.</p>