Making Climate Change History Documents from Global Warming's Past / edited by Joshua P. Howe ; foreword by Paul S. Sutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howe, Joshua, editor.

Series:

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics.

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

Climate change mitigation.

Climate change mitigation--History--Sources.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--Sources.

Climatic changes--History--Sources.

Global warming--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Making Climate Change History is a short, user-friendly collection of primary sources selected from the most important--and often the most overlooked--documents in the scientific and political history of anthropogenic climate change. It provides students, teachers, researchers and interested readers with the raw materials with which to construct a narrative of climate change in the twentieth century. It also provides a framework for developing historians to learn to work with a diverse array of primary sources, including scientific articles. This reader also makes its own case for how the stakes of conversations about climate change have become increasingly clear over time in terms of causes and consequences, and argues for the relevance of history to building just, equitable and effective strategies for dealing with the climatic challenges of the future"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Making Climate Change History

Part 1. The Scientific "Prehistory" of Global Warming

Part 2. The Cold War Roots of Global Warming

Part 3. Making Global Warming Green

Part 4. Climate Change as Controversy

Part 5. Climate Change Governance

Part 6. The Past, the Present, and the Future.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786845979

1786845970

9780295741406

0295741406

OCLC:

1182014694