Society matters -- Building scientific models of distant futures -- The new catastrophism -- High carbon lives -- Around the world in eighty hours -- Politics -- Governing catastrophes -- Innovating low carbon lives -- Alternative future societies -- A manifesto for bringing society into climate change
Summary
Explores the significance of human behaviour for understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and for assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour is economics
