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datestamp: 2022-08-22 17:26:28
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creators_name: Wiertz, Dingeman
creators_name: De Graaf, Nan Dirk
title: The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: climate change, sociology, public goods, cooperation, environment
note: © The Authors 2022. Original content in this chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
abstract: Climate change provides a major challenge to contemporary societies. Whether the
problem is best portrayed as our house being on fire (Thunberg 2019) or as our house
being imperceptibly eaten away by dry rot, there is little doubt that we do indeed have a
problem. Global temperatures have risen substantially, and heatwaves, hurricanes,
floods, and droughts have become increasingly common. There is overwhelming evidence
that these trends are, at least for a large part, caused by human activity, with increases in
greenhouse gas emissions being the prime culprit (IPCC 2015). According to some analysts, we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which humankind has
become a global geological force in its own right (Steffen et al. 2011).
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909432
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1962879
doi: 10.4337/9781789909432.00035
isbn_13: 9781789909425
lyricists_name: Wiertz, Dingeman
lyricists_id: DWIER05
actors_name: Wiertz, Dingeman
actors_id: DWIER05
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
series: Research Handbooks in Sociology
place_of_pub: Cheltenham, UK
pagerange: 475-492
pages: 18
isbn: 1789909422
book_title: Handbook of Sociological Science Contributions to Rigorous Sociology
editors_name: Gërxhani, Klarita
editors_name: Raub, Werner
editors_name: De Graaf, Nan Dirk
citation:        Wiertz, Dingeman;    De Graaf, Nan Dirk;      (2022)    The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute.                    In: Gërxhani, Klarita and Raub, Werner and De Graaf, Nan Dirk, (eds.) Handbook of Sociological Science Contributions to Rigorous Sociology. (pp. 475-492).   Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK.       Green open access   
 
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