Climate Futures Across Disciplines : A Next Generation Approach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuel, Susan Ann.

Contributor:

Samuel, Susan Ann

Series:

Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

Climate Futures Across Disciplines explores the multifaceted nature of climate futures, showcasing how early career researchers are helping to pioneer what innovation in academia might look like.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Guest Note

From the Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and Headingley

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards Plural Climate Futures-The Work of a New Generation

Origins of the Volume: The Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

A Challenge to New Scholars: Taking Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Work into Climate Futures

Climate Futures without Catastrophe: Horizons and Limits

What the Book Brings to the Climate Debate: Imagination, Design, and Governance across Disciplines

What the Book Achieves, Its Limits, and Future Trajectories

A Brief Conclusion

Bibliography

Part I: Imagining Climate Futures

Chapter 2: What's the Story?: Exploring the Communicative Capacities of Large Puppets in Creative Climate Change Communications

Introduction

Bev Adams' Experience

Adam Strickson's Experience

Fertile and Barren Ground: Perspectives on Climate Change Communications

Affect and Effect: Perspectives on Creative Climate Change Communications

Metaphors and Hybrids: Perspectives on the Communication of Giant Puppets

Æffect: Preliminary Findings on the Communicative Capacity of Bev Adams' Eco-Activist Giant Puppet in Public Space

Suggested Next-Generation Approaches to Creative Climate Change Communications

Notes

Chapter 3: Back to the Future: Can the Climate 3 Million Years Ago Help Us Understand Our Future(s)?

The Climate Is Changing Now and We Need to See Action: Why Should We Care about the Climate 3 Million Years Ago?

How Do We Know about the Pliocene?

What Can the Pliocene Tell Us about Our Warmer Future?.

The Elephant in the Room: Human Influence on the Climate

Acknowledgement

Chapter 4: Embodied Futures: Arts Practices and Entangled Perceptual Possibilities

Creative Embodied Thinking

The Parameters of Climate Communications

Integrating Theoretical Frameworks for Embodied Ecological Practice

Relationality, Narrative, and Multispecies Awareness

Integrating Theory, Perception, and Practice

Creative Facilitation and Guidebooks

The Illustrated Guidebook as a Methodological Tool

Embodied and Ritualised Modes of Ecological Learning

Adaptations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Translating Practice into Ethical and Reflective Awareness

Material Engagement through Creative Practice

Cycles of Relational Awareness and Ethical Engagement

Creative Practice Summary

Implications for Environmental Learning

Bridging to Ecocritical Arts Practice

Implications for Climate Futures and Next-Generation Approaches

Conclusion and Future Directions

Note

Part II: Designing Systems for Climate Futures

Chapter 5: Leveraging System Change for Fair Transport Decarbonisation

Where Do We Want to Go?

Fairness in Transport

Decarbonising a Fossil Fuel-Dependent Beast

System Change, Not Climate Change

Seeing System in the Complexity

Leverage Points

Parameters

Stocks and Flows

Delays and Buffers

Feedback Loops

Information Flows

Rules

Changing System Structure

Goals

Paradigms

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Policy and Wholesale Electricity Market Futures for a Decarbonised Power System in Great Britain

Great Britain (GB) Electricity System: A Whistle-Stop Tour

Great Britain (GB) Electricity Markets

The Wholesale Electricity Market

Price-Affecting Factors.

Current Market Mechanisms

Challenges for a Carbon-Free Grid Future

Political Polarisation

Barriers to Grid Decarbonisation

Evaluating Market Futures: Analytical Framework

Market Reform for a Net-Zero Future: REMA (Review of Electricity Market Arrangements)

Locational Pricing

Zonal Pricing

Nodal Pricing

The Locational Pricing Debate

CfD Reforms

Liquidity Implications

Managing Location Pricing Market Risks

Exploring Future Market Scenarios

Future One: Business as Usual

Future Two: A Transition to Zonal

Future Three: A Transition to Nodal

Chapter 7: Water Governance and Institutional Adaptation for Climate Futures: The Case of West Java Province, Indonesia

Overview

IWRM as a Tool for Institutional Adaptation in Water Governance

IWRM at the Sub-National Level: The Example of West Java

Intersectionality of Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation: Institutional Approach

Adaptation Across the Administrative Level

The Citarum River Basin Organisation

Irrigators and Farmer's Associations

Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MPWH)

Agribusiness as a Top Water-Consuming Sector

Institutional Adaptation: Between IWRM and Climate Change

Water Futures in IWRM Implementation in West Java

Concluding a Climate Futures Research Agenda for Water Governance

Part III: Governing Climate Futures

Chapter 8: Lost in Transition?: Equity in Planning and Funding of Climate-Adaptive Urban Sanitation

Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Sanitation Failures

Equity and Justice in Climate Adaptation of Urban Sanitation

Urban Sanitation Funding

The Challenge of Costing Climate Adaptation of Sanitation.

Climate and Green Finance for the Sanitation Sector: Solution or Overhyped Promise?

Conclusions: Climate Futures and a Next-Generation Approach for Sanitation Funding

Disclaimer

Chapter 9: Infrastructures of Legitimacy: Navigating Strategic Responsibilities from Below in Ghana's Mining Frontiers

Artisanal Mining and Climatic Futures in Ghana

Methodology

The Politics of Water within Extractive Futures: Adukrom

Tensions within Localised Climatic Actions

Dealing with Local Politics in Driving Local Climatic Futures

Rethinking Climatic Futures and Responsibilities

Chapter 10: The Future of Carbon Market Institutions in the Paris Era

Materials and Method

Change in the Global Climate Policy

Rise of Actors around Climate Emergency Discourse

Crash of Ideational Powers

Incremental Change of Institutions

Change in Carbon Markets and Linking: From Global Linking to Fragmentation

Discussion

Chapter 11: Unpacking the Right to a Healthy Environment in a Political-Legal Discourse: A 'Bold Action' for Climate Futures?

Right to a Healthy Environment: An Overview

In Retrospect: The Right to a Healthy Environment

Relation to Climate Justice and Climate Futures?

Exploring the Voting Patterns

The 48th Session of the HRC: Why It Matters?

The Votes and What They Represent

Conclusion: The Need for Continued "Bold Action" for Climate Futures

Chapter 12: Conclusion: In Pursuit of Hope-Lessons, Limits, and Future Directions

Lessons

Contributions

Limits

Future Directions

To Conclude

Index.

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ISBN:

9781003583813