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Author:   Thorsten Heimann ,  Jonathan Styles
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138348455

ISBN 10:   1138348457
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   20 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Culture, space, and differences in handling climate change 2. Climate cultures and space: Theoretical foundations 3. Climate-change constructions in science: Basic concepts and their historical development 4. Resilience constructions: Introduction to climate mitigation and adaptation strategies 5. Explanations for climate-culture differences: Derivation of the Values-Beliefs-Identities model 6. On the historical construction of political-administrative climate-change frameworks in the research area 7. Empirical approach 8. Communication about climate change in European coastal areas 9. Vulnerability constructions in European coastal areas 10. Resilience constructions in European coastal areas 11. Conclusion Index

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Translated Reviews from the German original Klimakulturen und Raum: Heimann's work represents an important addition to cultural and spatial research, particularly with regard to explanations for climate-cultural interpretation and action. (...) In addition to comprehensive background knowledge on climate change, on climate-cultural and communicative differences, and on the previous theoretical and methodological discourse, Heimann also offers significant new findings. His study is striking for having addressed the relation between space and culture, and for devising an approach for its investigation. (...) The innovative and profound theoretical and empirical approach of Culture, Space and Climate Change will be a rich resource for (...) social scientists interested in complex methods. -- Sybille Reitz, Chair of Energy and Environmental Policy, Technical University Munich; in: Pol-Int, pol-int.org, Februar 20, 2018 Altogether, Heimann provides an important contribution to the debates on environmental sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, and spatial theory. Of particular value, because of its potential to be transferred to other contexts, is the development of an integrated and diverse explanatory model for the differences in perception of climate change and climate-adaptation measures. A key accomplishment of Culture, Space and Climate Change is the unbiased sophistication of its conclusions, achieved only by the tremendous effort made to consider such a great breadth of factors. -- Oskar Marg, in: Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Jg. 76, 2018

Author Information

Thorsten Heimann is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner/Berlin. He holds a PhD in sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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