Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35642-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Climate and Culture

Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions.
Contributors include: Clara Brandi, Rüdiger Glaser, Iso Himmelsbach, Claudia Kemfert, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Claus Leggewie, Franz Mauelshagen, Geoffrey Parker, Christian Pfister, Dirk Riemann, Lea Schmitt, Jörn Sieglerschmidt, Markus Vogt, and Steffen Vogt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leggewie, Claus

Mauelshagen, Franz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction—Tracing and Replacing Europe’s Carbon Culture

Claus Leggewie and Franz Mauelshagen

Part 1: Ideas

1 Complexion and Climate: An Attempt at an Outline of Weather Outlooks in Europe from the Beginnings until Today

Jörn Sieglerschmidt

2 Theological Perspectives in the Ethical Debate about Climate Change

Markus Vogt

Part 2: Past

3 Long- and Short-Term Central European Climate Development in the Context of Vulnerability, Food Security, and Emigration

Rüdiger Glaser, Dirk Riemann, Steffen Vogt, and Iso Himmelsbach

4 History and Climate: The Crisis of the 1590s Reconsidered

Geoffrey Parker

5 The “Black Swan” of 1540: Aspects of a European Megadrought

Christian Pfister

Part 3: Memoirs

6 The Birth of Climate History

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Part 4: Present

7 EU Climate Leadership? Europe’s Role in Global Climate Negotiations

Clara Brandi

8 Energy Transition in Germany: Sonderweg or Role Model?

Claudia Kemfert

9 Changing Climates, Changing Spaces, Changing Times: Adaptation and Conflict on the West Frisian Island of Ameland

Lea Schmitt

Part 5: Prospects

10 The Age of Uncertainty: The Challenges of Climate Change for the Insurance Business

Franz Mauelshagen

11 Climate Change and Future Pasts: Preliminary Considerations on a Historiography of the Future

Claus Leggewie

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claus Leggewie, is a political scientist and historian and specialises in interdisciplinary cultural studies. His recent publications include: Anti-Europäer. Breivik, Dugin, al Suri & Co, Suhrkamp: Berlin, 2016 and Europe first! Eine Unabhängigkeitserklärung, Ullstein: Berlin, 2017. With Erik Meyer he is the editor of Global Pop. Das Buch zur Weltmusik, Metzler: Stuttgart, 2017.

Franz Mauelshagen is an environmental historian and historian of science. His recent publications include: With Sam White, Christian Pfister, Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 and “Bridging the Great Divide — The Anthropocene as a Challenge to the Social Sciences and Humanities.” In Paul J. Crutzen et al. (eds.): The Anthropocene — A New Phase in Earth History, London, 2017.