(2 October 2012) My review of John Urry’s book — Urry,J. (2011) Climate change and society Polity Press, Cambridge, 217pp. — has been published here in a Book Review Symposium in the journal Sociology.
Month: October 2012
On the ‘two degrees’ policy target
(3 October 2012) ‘On the two degrees policy target’. I have written this short essay (read here: see pp.122-125), explaining why ‘two degrees’ is unhelpful as a policy target, as a contribution to the newly published book edited by Ottmar Edenhofer and colleagues — Climate change, justice and sustainability: linking climate and development policy Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 380pp.
The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram
(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.
