New Book Published - Climate Futures Across Disciplines: A Next Generation Approach
🌱 Exciting Announcement! 🌱
Check out our book 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 co-edited with Prof. Richard Beardsworth and Prof. Viktoria Spaiser — which is now available Open Access:
Susan Ann Samuel
This book is an effort by Priestley Climate Scholars at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures in the University of Leeds to strengthen inter- / multi- disciplinary climate change research through intergenerational collaboration. The chapters are from various diverse academic disciplines, all looking into climate futures as a next-generation approach. Grateful to my co-editors and all the contributors for their unwavering support and joy.
Huge thanks to Prof. Piers Forster CBE, Director of Priestley Centre for Climate Futures for the amazing foreword and constant encouragement, and Alex Sobel, MP of Leeds Central and Headingley for the profound guest note. Grateful to Shona Smith, Clare Martynski, Mariam Hanan Hameed Sulaiman and all those who supported us in this journey.
A snapshot into the chapters:
🔵 Ch. 1 - Richard Beardsworth introduces the volume as an interdisciplinary contribution to climate futures scholarship (See here)
🔵 Ch. 2 - Bev Adams et al argues that giant #puppetry offers a creative, emotionally resonant and participatory approach to climate communication (See here)
🔵 Ch. 3 - Lauren Burton et al examines the climate of the Pliocene (~3 million years ago) as an analogue for understanding the dynamics, limits, and regional implications of warmer climate futures (See here).
🔵 Ch. 4 - Benjamin Skinner explores how arts-based and ecosomatic practices can foster embodied ecological awareness and reimagine climate futures. Experience the artwork in the chapter!! (See here)
🔵 Ch. 5 - Vanessa Ternes uses systems thinking to explore how fairness can be embedded within the #UK’s transition to a hashtag#netzero transport future by 2050 (See here)
🔵 Ch. 6 - Samuel Birch examines how electricity market design can help #UK achieve a clean and reliable power system (See here)
🔵 Ch. 7 - Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti examines how water governance and foreign aid shape climate adaptation in West Java, Indonesia (See here).
🔵 Ch. 8 - Leonie Hyde-Smith et al examines how equitable, climate-adaptive sanitation systems can support more inclusive and resilient urban futures (See here).
🔵 Ch. 9 - Ruth Jihyung Joo et al examines how Article 6 carbon markets have evolved after Paris Agreement, arguing that their focus on economic competition limits their ability to address the climate emergency (See here)
🔵 Ch. 10 - Susan Ann Samuel argues that the right to a healthy environment strengthens climate justice by setting global legal and political standards for fairer climate futures (See here).
🔵 Ch. 11 - Viktoria Spaiser and I reflect on the volume’s lessons, limits, and future directions (See here).
