Article
Introduction to Special Theme Section “Accounting for Climate Change: Measurement, Management, Morality, and Myth”
Human Ecology
(2016)
Abstract
This special section considers contemporary efforts to account for climate change through four frames: measurement, management, morality and myth. Our introduction briefly outlines these perspectives and the relevant literature, asking: 1) How have techniques of measurementand quantification emerged from and contributed to the particular politics of the "Anthropocene"?; 2) How have our efforts to measure socio-climatic systems facilitated new techniques of socio-environmental management and, at times, worked to reshape the very systems they describe?; 3) How have accounting practices worked to both elucidate and obscure questions of morality, value, responsibility and justice?; and 4) How might we address the critique that climate science is akin to myth with greater incorporation of historical and cross cultural knowledge from human ecology, human geography and anthropology?
Keywords
- climate,
- climate mitigation,
- social sciences
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December, 2016
DOI
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-016-9866-1
Citation Information
Cindy Isenhour, Jessica O'Reilly and Heather Yocum. "Introduction to Special Theme Section “Accounting for Climate Change: Measurement, Management, Morality, and Myth”" Human Ecology Vol. 44 Iss. 6 (2016) p. 647 - 654 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cindy_isenhour/8/