Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global FutureRoy Bhaskar 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:
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. |
Contents
Interdisciplinarity and climate change | 1 |
A research agenda to support action on global warming | 25 |
3 Seven theses on CO2 reductionism and its interdisciplinary counteraction | 35 |
4 The dangerous climate of disciplinary tunnel vision | 54 |
5 Consumption a missing dimension in climate policy | 85 |
A critical realist perspective | 100 |
Brokering interdisciplinarity across the physical and social sciences | 116 |
8 The need for a transdisciplinary understanding of development in a hot and crowded world | 135 |
The case of the thorium fuel cycle | 164 |
Critical realism and the need to reinstitutionalize science | 183 |
12 Towards a dialectics of knowledge and care in the global system | 205 |
the travelling circus of climate change A conference tourist and his confessions | 227 |
Further reading | 247 |
Biographical notes on contributors | 249 |
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9 Knowledge democracy and action in response to climate change | 149 |
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