Thorsten Heimann

Culture, Space and Climate Change (eBook, PDF)

Vulnerability and Resilience in European Coastal Areas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how cultural differences in the handling of climate change along European coasts can be described and explained. The work develops the concept of culture-as-relational space, elaborates explanatory approaches for environmental sociology and investigates them by surveying spatial development of European coastal regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429791611
• Artikelnr.: 54663976

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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