Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

Download or read book Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges written by Stehr Nico and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental conditions.In a comprehensive and accessible way, this book:Drawing on the insights of various disciplines and citing numerous examples, Society and Climate probes the interplay between society, science and climate, and warns against making any easy assumptions.