CHAPTER 1. Negotiating Ecology in an Age of Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change

Climate Change: What’s the Big Deal?

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Climate Damages

Droughts, floods, soaring temperatures, sea-level rise, and melting ice are just some of the damages brought about by climate change. Chapter 1 details the cost of our failure to cut our emissions, from crop-destroying droughts to devastating floods. It also documents the inexorable build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as demonstrated by the Keeling curve and observations from Antarctic ice core samples. The chapter then provides a brief history of the science linking the build-up of atmospheric greenhouse gases and climate damages.

Community Informatics, Civil Society & Capability Approaches Converging to Cope With ‘Bifurcation Challenges’ in Current Societal Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 336-345
Author(s):  
Peter Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Societal Development ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter maps out various ‘bifurcation challenges’ to societal development, such as, (a) climate change (b) demographic change (c) the increasing urbanisation of society and (d) ‘food security.’ The research encapsulates a basic Human Rights approach to foster the acquirement of the necessary ‘capabilities’ to make informed discriminate choices, with regard to one’s personal development and to one’s community of reference. It further offers a concept of Civil Society of committed individuals, facilitating the discovery of new aspects of their identity, through their commitment to societal development. The three main concepts, in this chapter: 1. The ‘Community Informatics’ Concept, 2. The ‘Civil Society’ Concept and 3. The ‘Capabilities’ Concept, could, with the aid of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), converge, to cope with the current discernable bifurcation challenges to societal development.

The Argument in Summary

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Peter Drahos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Belt And Road

Chapter 1 summarizes the entire argument of the book. Only China can organize the exogenous shock that is needed to save world capitalism from the worst climate change scenarios. China could do this by using its cities as large-scale experimental sites to trial innovations to support the bio-digital energy paradigm. The chapter introduces the key concepts of survival governance, the geo-energy trilemma, and the bio-digital energy paradigm. The role that China’s Belt and Road Initiative might play in the globalization of the bio-digital energy paradigm is outlined. The chapter concludes by describing the interview data that was obtained in seventeen different countries and how this data informs the argument of the book.

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