Introduction: Grounding Global Climate Change

摘要: Global climate change research has seen an increasing involvement of the social sciences and humanities. The introduction charts changing role cultural in this field, delineating different strands that have emerged over past few years. Studies differ significantly according to assigned respective discipline, both within beyond academia, as well how they deal with problem uncertainty. While some studies are directly connected a call for or even system change, others take into account people from cultures conceptualise human-environmental relations ways. We move on discuss several epistemological methodological challenges arising out inherently interdisciplinary subject attempt reconcile locally-grounded approaches global models. All these problems reflected contributions volume, which grouped three parts. first foregrounds questions interdisciplinarity research, second presents ethnographic case studies, while third part provides insight collaborative comparative approaches.