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 makes use of the extensive
resources of critical realism to articulate a comprehensive
framework for multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity,
transdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary understanding, one which
duly takes account of ontological as well as epistemological
considerations. Many of the subsequent chapters seek to show how
this general approach can be used to make intellectual sense of the
complex phenomena in and around the issue of climate change,
including our response to it.
Among the issues discussed, in a number of graphic and
compelling studies, by a range of distinguished contributors, both
activists and scholars, are:
- The dangers of reducing all environmental, energy and climate
gas issues to questions of carbon dioxide emissions
- The problems of integrating natural and social scientific work
and the perils of monodisciplinary tunnel vision
- The consequences of the neglect of issues of consumption in
climate policy
- The desirability of a care-based ethics and of the integration
of cultural considerations into climate policy
- The problem of relating theoretical knowledge to practical
action in contemporary democratic societies
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is essential reading for
all serious students of the fight against climate change, the
interactions between governmental bodies, and critical realism.
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