Rethinking Climate Change Research

Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and Søren Riis, all at Roskilde University, Denmark.

1: Introduction; Introduction to Section 1: Towards a New Agenda for Climate Change Research; 2: Clean Technology; Introduction to Section 2: Climate Change and Clean Technology; 1: What is CleanTech? – Unraveling the Buzzword; 2: Local Transition Strategies for Low Carbon Construction and Housing – Studies of Innovative Danish Municipalities; 3: The Development of Non-fossil Energy Systems in the Absence of Strong Climate Change Global Governance; 4: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation in the Design of Low-carbon Energy Technologies – a Case Study of the Lighting Sector; 5: Using Sustainability Games to Elicit Moral Hypotheses from Scientists and Engineers; 3: Culture; Introduction to Part 3: Climate Change and Culture; 5: Nature, Climate Change and the Culture of Social Sciences; 6: Climate Change Knowledge and Social Movement Theory 1; 7: The Matter of Climate Change: What It Is and How to Be Concerned With It; 8: Education, Active Citizenship and Applied Social Intelligence: some Democratic Tools to Meet the Threat of Climate Change 1; 9: Sustainability Means Ethics and This is a Cultural Revolution; 10: Coping with Climate Change: Social Science and the Case of Multi-site Living; 4: Communication; Introduction to Part 4: Climate Change and Communication; 11: Challenges to Climate Change Communication Through Mass Media in Bangladesh: a Developing Country Perspective; 12: Could Films Help to Save the World from Climate Change? A Discourse Exploration of Two Climate Change Documentary Films and an Analysis of their Impact on the UK Printed Media; 13: Communicating the Political Act of Switching off the Light: Mediating Citizen Action through ‘Boundary Acts' in the Earth Hour and Vote Earth Global Media Events; 14: Climate Activism and the Mass Media: Potentially a Politically Challenging Debate; 15: Negotiating and Communicating Climate