Format:
1 online resource (434 pages)
ISBN:
9789004356825
Series Statement:
Climate and Culture Ser.
Content:
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 Management -- 2.2 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
Content:
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 Security -- 4.3 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 -- 3 The Crisis of the 1590s and the Monarchy of Philip II -- 4 The Enemies of Philip II and the Crisis -- 5 A Global Crisis in the 1590s -- 6 A Fatal Synergy -- 7 A Turning Point in World History? -- Chapter 5 -- The "Black Swan" of 1540: Aspects of a European Megadrought -- Christian Pfister* -- 1 Black Swans and Hot Summers -- 2 The Heat Wave in Summer 2003 -- 3 The Year 1540-an Evidence-based Worst Case Scenario -- 4 Vulnerabilities of Pre-modern and Present-day to Severe Drought -- 5 Conclusions -- Part 3 -- Memoirs -- Chapter 6 -- The Birth of Climate History -- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- Part 4 -- Present -- Chapter 7 -- EU Climate Leadership? Europe's Role in Global Climate Negotiations -- Clara Brandi -- 1 Introduction -- 2 EU Climate Leadership -- 3 EU Climate Leadership in Copenhagen -- 3.1 Preference Cohesion in Copenhagen
Content:
3.2 Credibility in Copenhagen -- 3.3 Opportunity in Copenhagen -- 4 EU Climate Leadership from Copenhagen to Paris and après Paris -- 4.1 Preference Cohesion from Copenhagen to Paris -- 4.2 Credibility from Copenhagen to Paris -- 4.3 Opportunity from Copenhagen to Paris -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Energy Transition in Germany: Sonderweg or role model? -- Claudia Kemfert -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy Transition -- 3 Aspects of Energy Transition -- 3.1 Renewable Energy Sources-Problem Solver and Economic Factor -- 3.2 New Market Integration of Renewables-More Problems than Solutions -- 4 Necessary Investment for Energy Transition Runs into Hundreds of Billions -- 5 An Energy Transition "Made in Germany" -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Adaptation and Conflict on Ameland -- Changing climates, changing spaces, changing times: Adaptation and conflict on the West Frisian Island of Ameland -- Lea Schmitt* -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Basis and Methodical Approach -- 3 Build with Nature or Be Built Over by Nature? The Zandhaaken on Ballum Beach -- 4 Concluding Observations -- 5 Outlook -- Part 5 -- Prospects -- Chapter 10 -- The Age of Uncertainty: the Challenges of Climate Change for the Insurance Business -- Franz Mauelshagen -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Future's Past -- 3 The Age of Uncertainty -- 4 Uncertainty in the Insurance Business -- 5 Hail and Crop Insurance in Switzerland -- 6 Conclusions -- Chapter 11 -- Climate Change and Future Pasts: Preliminary Considerations on a Historiography of the Future -- Claus Leggewie -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Saddle Period 1 (1770-1850) -- 2.1 Utopian Programmes -- 3 'Themes of the Future' -- 4 Time Pressure -- 5 Saddle Period 2 (2000-2100)? -- 6 Discussion: Possible Objections to Futurisation -- A) "Futurisation" vs. Presentism -- B) One Cannot Foresee the Future -- C) The Democratic Deficit
Content:
D) Do Generations Matter? -- E) Symbolic and Virtual Representation of Future People -- F) Is Futurisation Just? -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004356429
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Climate change and cultural transition in Europe Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004356429
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004356428
Additional Edition:
Print version Leggewie, Claus Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe Boston : BRILL,c2018 ISBN 9789004356429
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Geography
Keywords:
Europa
;
Klimaänderung
;
Erwärmung
;
Klimaschutz
;
Kulturwandel
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Mauelshagen, Franz 1967-
Author information:
Leggewie, Claus 1950-
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