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Title Climate change and cultural transition in Europe / edited by Claus Leggewie, Franz Mauelshagen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018

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Series Climate and culture, 2213-0519 ; 4
Climate and culture ; 4
Contents Intro; Contents; Foreword; Carmen Meinert; Claus Leggewie; Acknowledgements; Claus Leggwie and Franz Mauelshagen; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Tracing and Replacing Europe's Carbon Culture; Claus Leggewie and Franz Mauelshagen Leggewie and Mauelshagen; 1 Carbon Culture; 2 Europe's Share in the Making of Global Warming; 3 The Paris Agreement and European Climate Policy; 4 Narratives of Climate Change and the Future; 5 Outline of This Book; Abbreviations; Abbreviations; Part 1; Ideas; Chapter 1
Complexion and Climate: An Attempt at an Outline of Weather Outlooks in Europe from the Beginnings Until Today*Jörn Sieglerschmidt; 1 Introduction; 2 Experience; 3 Cosmos and Complexion; 4 The Immoderate and the Poetic; 5 Experiment, Measure, and Number; 6 The Immeasurable; Chapter 2; Theological Perspectives in the Ethical Debate about Climate Change; Markus Vogt; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Spirituality and Ethics in the Face of Rationalism; 1.2 Ethical Analyses of the Spiritual Type of Knowledge; 1.3 The Gap between Knowledge and Belief; 2 The Biblical Creation Mandate
2.1 The Belief in Creation as Crisis Management2.2 Consequences for an Ecological Doctrine of Creation; 2.3 Climate Change as a "Sign of the Times"; 2.4 Ecological World-Ethos: Which Competencies Do Religions Have?; 3 A New Understanding of Welfare and Progress; 3.1 The Conflict between Climate Protection and Social Justice; 3.2 Newton's Concept of Nature and the Understanding of Progress; 3.3 The Hope in God and the Belief in Political Utopia; Part 2; Past; Chapter 3 European Climate and Food Security
Long- and Short-Term Central European Climate Development in the Context of Vulnerability, Food Security, and Emigration Glaser et al. Rüdiger Glaser, Dirk Riemann, Steffen Vogt, and Iso Himmelsbach; 1 Introduction; 2 Climate Reconstructions as a Research Subject; 2.1 Societal Archives; 2.2 Natural Archives; 3 Climate Information on Europe; 3.1 Long-Term Climate Development since the Year 1000; 4 Long-Term Climatic Development, Social Discourse, and Food Supply; 4.1 Conceptual Framework for the Assessment of Climate Vulnerability
4.2 The Relationship between Climate Development and Food Security4.3 Climate, Vulnerability, and Emigration 1815-1847: Three Case Studies for Short-Term Interactions; 5 Case Study 1: The Large-scale Emigration of 1816/17-the "Year without Summer"; 6 Case Study 2: The Large-scale Emigration of 1829-1833; 7 Case Study 3: The Large-scale Emigration of 1846/1847; 8 Case Studies: Summary; 9 Summary; Chapter 4; History and Climate: The Crisis of the 1590s Reconsidered; Geoffrey Parker*; 1 Bringing Climate Back In; 2 Contemporary Perceptions of Climate Change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Climate change mitigation -- Social aspects -- Europe
Climate change mitigation -- Europe
SCIENCE -- Global Warming & Climate Change.
Climate change mitigation
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Leggewie, Claus, 1950- editor.
Mauelshagen, Franz, 1967- editor.
LC no. 2017049973
ISBN 9789004356825
9004356827