Climate Change

With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?
Impact
September 3, 2021

With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?

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Online Event: A Turning Point for International Climate Policy?
Announcements
April 27, 2021

Online Event: A Turning Point for International Climate Policy?

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The Psychological and Emotional Trap That Sabotages Climate Science
Public Policy
April 22, 2021

The Psychological and Emotional Trap That Sabotages Climate Science

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Is Our War with the Environment Leading to Pandemics?
Insights
April 22, 2020

Is Our War with the Environment Leading to Pandemics?

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The Pandemic Highlights How We Miss Security Threat of Climate Change

The Pandemic Highlights How We Miss Security Threat of Climate Change

With climate change disasters, as with infectious diseases, rapid response time and global coordination are of the essence. At this stage in the COVID-19 situation, there are three primary lessons for a climate-changing future: the immense challenge of global coordination during a crisis, the potential for authoritarian emergency responses, and the spiraling danger of compounding shocks.

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Analysis: A 10th of Climate Change Research Funding Goes to Social Science

Analysis: A 10th of Climate Change Research Funding Goes to Social Science

A new analysis published in the journal Energy Research & Social Science finds that funding for social science climate-change research is not only unhealthy but downright anemic at roughly 10 percent of the total spend. Meanwhile, total spending on climate-change research in total, regardless of discipline, comes to just 5 percent of all competitive research grants funded between 1950 and 2018.

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Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

Two academics who have integrated what might have once seemed like non-economic externalities into economic models have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics. The winners are William D. Nordhaus of Yale University, cited for integrating climate change into macroeconomic analysis, and Paul M. Romer of New York University’s Stern School of Business, cited doing the same with technological innovations.

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Environmental Sustainability Begins at Home

Environmental Sustainability Begins at Home

David Canter reviews results of studies on the challenges of sustaining natural resources.

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Is It Possible to Reduce Poverty and CO2 Emissions Simultaneously?

Is It Possible to Reduce Poverty and CO2 Emissions Simultaneously?

[We’re pleased to welcome Denis Collins. Denis recently published an article in Organization & Environment entitled “Managing the Poverty-CO2 Reductions Paradox: The […]

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The March Issue of World Future Studies is Now Online!

The March Issue of World Future Studies is Now Online!

The March 2016 issue of World Future Review is now available and can be read online for free for the next 30 days. The March […]

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Behavioral Science May Hold Some Keys to Climate Change

Behavioral Science May Hold Some Keys to Climate Change

As we are often reminded, we urgently and drastically need to limit our use of one shared resource – fossil fuels – and its effect on another – the climate. But how realistic is this goal, both for national leaders and for us? Well, psychology may hold some answers.

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Book Review: The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making

Book Review: The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making

Derek Wall praises ‘The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making,’ Christopher Shaw’s exploration of environmental policymaking. The book focuses on the public circulation of 2°C as the widely cited maximum figure by which temperatures can be allowed to rise.

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