Climate Change and the Humanities

1. Introduction
Alexander Elliott, Vinita Damodaran, James Cullis

Part I. Historical

2. The Importance of the Humanities to the Climate Change Debate
Alexander Elliott, James Cullis

3. Understanding Climate Change Historically
Richard Staley

4. The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern
Richard Grove

5. The Locality in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on the Environmental History of Eastern India
Vinita Damodaran

6. Plastic Daffodils: The Pastoral, the Picturesque, and Cultural Environmentalism
Nick Groom

Part II. Contemporary

7. Cli-Fi? Literature, Ecocriticism, History
Martin Ryle

8. Climate Change as a Challenge to Philosophy
Gideon Calder

9. Belief in Change: The Role of Media and Communications in Driving Action on Climate Change
Catherine Happer

Part III. Future

10. Climate Change and Future Aesthetics
Emily Brady

11. Investment Without Return: On Futures that Will Never Be Ours
Paul Davies

12. Climate Change and Moral Philosophy
Tim Mulgan

Keywords: History, History of Science, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History