Editors:
- Explains climate-change and culture-shift and how their effects, and our responses to them, will transform Earth and humankind into the 22nd-century (c.2100)
- Presents a one-of-a-kind vision of our current age as a “hinge” or axial century, one driven by the most radical combined change of nature and culture since the rise of agriculture at the end of the last Ice Age
- Designed to accessibly and objectively share with the reader what we know at a state-of-the-science level: seeks to advance understanding rather than advocate any particular agenda
- Imagines a future after world circa 2100
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imagining a World: General Impacts and Implications
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Front Matter
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Imagining a World: Specific Regional Impacts and Implications
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Front Matter
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Inhabiting an Imagined World: Better or Worse? Four Interpretations
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About this book
This book begins by detailing the current state of knowledge about these two ongoing, accelerating and potentially world-transforming changes: climate change, in the form of global warming, and a profound emerging shift of normative cultural condition toward the assumptions and values often associated with so-called postmodernity, such as tolerance, diversity, self-referentiality, and dubiety replaced with certainty. Next, the contributors imagine, explain and debate the most likely consequent transformations of human and natural ecologies and economies that will take place by the end of the 21st-century.
In 16 compellingly original, provocative and readable chapters, A World after Climate Change and Culture-Shift presents a one-of-a-kind vision ofour current age as a “hinge” or axial century, one driven by the most radical combined change of nature and culture since the rise of agriculture at the end of the last Ice Age some 10 millennia ago. This book is highly recommended to scholars and students of the environmental and social sciences, as well as to all readers interested in how changes in nature and culture will work together to reshape our world and ourselves.
"I cannot think of a book more geared to advancing the art and science of geography." - Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Outstanding," "unique," and "exceptional timeliness of topic and ambition ofvision". - Richard Marston, University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University; past president, Association of American Geographers
Keywords
- Axial age
- Cancun adaption framework
- Changes at Sub-global scales
- Climate change and culture shift in Vietnam
- Climate change in the form of global warming
- Cultural shift in Europe
- Cultural shifts in East and Southeast Asia
- Culture shift in University students
- Defining the geography of Europe
- Earth's energy balance
- Environmental struggle
- Europe 2050-2100
- Global climate change and domestic energy consumption
- Human geography of North America in 2100
- Human mobility
- Mitigation and adaptation
- Most radical combined change of nature and culture
- Reshape our world and ourselves
- Scarcity of water resources
- Struggle for power and energy
Reviews
“This book was nominated for the American Association of Geographers Meridian Award by Dick Marston, past president of the organization, so it has instant authority and is worthy of widespread attention. … The book offers a diverse array of views, opinions, and predictions of what the future will be like as climates continue to change and cultures continue to shift.” (Kent M. McGregor, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 4 (2), 2016)
“This book gives readers a speculative but extensively referenced picture of what the Earth and its human populations may be like 100 years from now. … About half the book deals with physical descriptions, maps, and graphic data on global regions … . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” (F. T. Manheim, Choice, Vol. 51 (9), May, 2014)
“I cannot think of a book more geared to advancing the art and science of geography.” (Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Outstanding, … unique, … exceptional timeliness of topic and ambition of vision.” (Richard Marston, University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University; past president, Association of American Geographers) <
Editors and Affiliations
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Oologah, USA
Jim Norwine
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift
Editors: Jim Norwine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7352-3Published: 21 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7799-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7353-0Published: 07 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 410
Topics: Human Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Regional and Cultural Studies, Environment, general