The chapter gives an analysis of the shifting social discourse on climate change in Germany
and the US Climate Change Discourses (CCD) are defined as thematically focused coupled …

In his foreword to this book, Ronnie Lipschutz calls attention to the question of order in
relation to climate change, how social orders are created and maintained and how they …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report on
physical understanding of the climate system, released August 2021, concluded that human …

The environment poses real problems for the social sciences, especially the growing sense
of urgency surrounding climate change (Rayner and Malone, 1998; Cock and Hopwood …

International climate change politics provides a clear example of how cultural differences,
conflicts of interest and scientific assessments interact to shape environmental policy …

The gap between what is known about climate change and the action taken to prevent it has
instigated debates around how to reconfigure global environmental assessment …

Climate change is considered to be global in at least two respects: it firstly denotes social-
ecological processes affecting the whole world and secondly refers to a scientific body of …

How citizens think about, and relate to, climate change and possibilities for addressing it are
sociologically important questions, sharpened in the current context of extensive climate …

As this collection of essays demonstrates, sociology offers a wide range of important
perspectives on key aspects of global climate change. These perspectives include analyses …

Despite a growing number of scientific studies and a robust consensus among climate
scientists about the reality of human-made climate change, public debates remain …