|9780822968511|Sufism, Climate Change, and Ecological Living|As human societies grapple with a future marked by ecological disaster, climate change is often conceived as a technological, economic, or political problem with a corresponding solution. In this first-of-its-kind book, Muhammad Faruque reframes the crisis as not simply a problem to be solved but rather a profound crisis of meaning, value, and human self-understanding. Drawing on a vast range of philosophical, environmental, and climate science discourses, as well as postgrowth economic theories, Faruque develops a theory of the “interconnected universe,” a new way of understanding the relationship between human beings, the climate, and the…

|9780822949282|Sufism, Climate Change, and Ecological Living|As human societies grapple with a future marked by ecological disaster, climate change is often conceived as a technological, economic, or political problem with a corresponding solution. In this first-of-its-kind book, Muhammad Faruque reframes the crisis as not simply a problem to be solved but rather a profound crisis of meaning, value, and human self-understanding. Drawing on a vast range of philosophical, environmental, and climate science discourses, as well as postgrowth economic theories, Faruque develops a theory of the “interconnected universe,” a new way of understanding the relationship between human beings, the climate, and the…

|9780822945239|Coming to Terms with Environmental Alarmism|Environmental alarmism has long been a political bellwether. Tell me what you think about the green apocalypse, and I’ll tell you where you stand on the issues. But as the environmental heydays of the 1970s move into perspective, the time has come for a reassessment. Horror scenarios create a legacy whose effects have largely escaped attention. Based on case studies from four continents and the North Atlantic, Exploring Apocalyptica argues for a reevaluation of familiar clichés. It shows that environmentalists were less apocalyptic than commonly thought, and other groups were far more enthusiastic. It traces…

|9780822945451|Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990|In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe.| Astrid Kirchhof J. R. McNeill| Russian and East European…

|9780822946168|Placing Atmospheric Knowledges|As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate….