Climate Futures Across Disciplines

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A Next Generation Approach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Susan Ann Samuel, Richard Beardsworth, Viktoria Spaiser

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Climate Futures Across Disciplines explores the multifaceted nature of climate futures, showcasing how early career researchers are helping to pioneer what innovation in academia might look like.The volume shows how emerging scholars can sustain disciplinary rigour while engaging wider ecological, political, societal, and perceptual concerns. Instead of treating climate change purely as scientific or policy analysis, the book approaches future-oriented thinking as a domain of imagination, design, and governance. Initial chapters translate climate change into lived or felt experience through creative performance, visual practice, and palaeoclimate analogues, then move to infrastructure design, fair transport decarbonisation, renewable energy markets, and inclusive water governance. The final section considers governance, law, and institutional responsibility, illustrating how climate futures unfold in sanitation systems, mining towns, carbon markets, and environmental rights frameworks. Throughout, contributors emphasise that climate futures are lived, negotiated, and unevenly experienced. Their analyses foreground justice, lived experience, and practical insight, while recognising the need for future research that connects grounded practices to accelerating risks and inequalities.Breaking academic barriers to inspire new and innovative research approaches, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, and human rights, as well as to policymakers, activists, NGOs and public interest lawyers.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Antal sidor254
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032952314

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Susan Ann Samuel is a lawyer in India and recently completed her PhD in International Relations from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She is currently a Research Assistant to Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and Chairman of Committee of External Affairs, India.Richard Beardsworth is Professor of International Relations, Head of the School of Politics and International Studies, and Principal Fellow at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds. His present research focuses on international climate leadership and reframing net zero in a populist age, with a view to overshoot.Viktoria Spaiser is Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science at the University of Leeds - School of Politics and International Studies, United Kingdom. She is also affiliated with the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures.

List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsForeword: Piers ForsterGuest Note: From Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and HeadingleyPreface and Acknowledgements: Susan Ann SamuelList of Abbreviations1. Introduction: Towards Plural Climate Futures – The Work of a New GenerationRichard BeardsworthPart I: Imagining Climate Futures2. What’s the story? Exploring the Communicative Capacities of Large Puppets in Creative Climate Change CommunicationsBev Adams and Adam Strickson3. Back to the Future – Can the climate 3 million years ago help us to understand our future(s)?Lauren Burton, Alan Haywood, Julia Tindall, Daniel Hill, and Aisling Dolan4. Embodied Futures: Arts Practices and Entangled Perceptual PossibilitiesBenjamin SkinnerPart II: Designing Systems for Climate Futures5. Leveraging System Change for Fair Transport DecarbonisationVanessa Ternes6. Policy and Wholesale Electricity Market Futures for a GB Decarbonised Power SystemSamuel Birch7. Water Governance and Institutional Adaptation for Climate Futures: The Case of West Java Province, Indonesia Dewa WishantiPart III: Governing Climate Futures8. Lost In Transition? Equity in Planning and Funding of Climate-Adaptive Urban SanitationLeonie Hyde-Smith, Anna Mdee, Katy Roelich, and Barbara Evans9. Infrastructures Of Legitimacy: Navigating Strategic Responsibilities from Below in Ghana’s Mining FrontiersAlesia Ofori and Vivian Nsiah10. The Future of Carbon Market Institutions in the Paris-eraJihyung Joo, Jouni Paavola, and James Van Alstine11. Unpacking The Right to A Healthy Environment in a Political-Legal Discourse: A ‘Bold Action’ for Climate Futures?Susan Ann Samuel12. Conclusion: In Pursuit of Hope — Lessons, Limits, and Future DirectionsSusan Ann Samuel and Viktoria SpaiserIndex

"Climate Futures Across Disciplines is a timely and thoughtful contribution to the climate conversation—rigorous in its scholarship, refreshingly global in scope, and enriched by the intergenerational collaboration between emerging researchers and seasoned mentors. This volume doesn’t just imagine climate futures; it models the kind of intellectual pluralism and cross-disciplinary dialogue we urgently need to shape these futures."- Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, India; Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations"Climate Futures Across Disciplines demonstrates the kind of creative, collaborative approach society needs in our quest to make real progress in addressing the existential threats posed by the climate and environmental crises. Weaving together art, science, politics and law, the book features a highly engaging and thought-provoking set of essays authored by a diversity of researchers, young and old, from the South and the North. Looking for hope? You'll find it here!"- Dr David Boyd, Professor at University of British Columbia and Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment