Culture and Global Change
Culture and Global Change

Author: Tim Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-27

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134771584

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Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.

Mapping the Futures
Mapping the Futures

Author: John Bird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781138147249

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This collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future.

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

Author: Andrew J. Hoffman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-03-11

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0804795053

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Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is the product of contrasting, deeply entrenched worldviews. This brief examines what causes people to reject or accept the scientific consensus on climate change. Synthesizing evidence from sociology, psychology, and political science, Andrew J. Hoffman lays bare the opposing cultural lenses through which science is interpreted. He then extracts lessons from major cultural shifts in the past to engender a better understanding of the problem and motivate the public to take action. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate makes a powerful case for a more scientifically literate public, a more socially engaged scientific community, and a more thoughtful mode of public discourse.

Culture, Society & Globalization Gr. 5-8
Culture, Society & Globalization Gr. 5-8

Author: Erika Gasper-Gombatz

Publisher: Classroom Complete Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1553199634

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Help students make informed decisions about civil matters and lifestyle choices that affect themselves and the world. Our resource provides students with the building blocks to understand the debates and issues surrounding globalization. Go back in time to experience the influence of the Ottoman Empire on the greater world. Debate the pros and cons of globalization in today's world. Conduct a survey at your school to find out whether mother languages are being passed down to current generations. Explore the negative impacts of the spread of Western culture to the rest of the world. Plan international vacations for people that minimize the negative impacts of tourist activity on indigenous and local populations. Find out how globalization can cause the spread of infectious diseases to occur more quickly. Watch the world come together to deal with the global issue of Climate Change. Represent a nation during a United Nations meeting to draft additions to human rights law. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations
Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations

Author: Daniel Denison

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-06-27

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 111823510X

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Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive. Each chapter uses a case as a means to illustrate an important aspect of culture change focusing on seven common culture-change dilemmas including creating a strategic alignment, keeping strategy simple, and more.

Weathered
Weathered

Author: Mike Hulme

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1473959012

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Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures – how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.

Culture and Global Change
Culture and Global Change

Author: Lourdes Arizpe S.

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780472083480

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Offers a model for how to gather information on the human dimensions of global change

Culture and Global Change
Culture and Global Change

Author: Tim Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-27

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1134771576

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Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.

Culture, Politics and Climate Change
Culture, Politics and Climate Change

Author: Deserai A. Crow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-21

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1135103348

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Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This collection draws from multiple perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. It is divided into four sections – Culture and Values, Communication and Media, Politics and Policy, and Future Directions in Climate Politics Scholarship – each followed by a commentary from a key expert in the field. The book includes analysis of the challenges and opportunities for establishing successful communication on climate change among scientists, the media, policy-makers, and activists. With an emphasis on the interrelation between social, cultural, and political aspects of climate change communication, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of climate change, environment studies, environmental policy, communication, cultural studies, media studies, politics, sociology.

Climate Cultures
Climate Cultures

Author: Jessica Barnes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0300198817

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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet global solutions have proved elusive. This book draws together cutting-edge anthropological research to uncover new ways of approaching the critical questions that surround climate change. Leading anthropologists engage in three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to present-day discourse, how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups, and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change.