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Climate Futures Across Disciplines explores the multifaceted nature of climate futures, showcasing how early career researchers are helping to pioneer what innovation in academia might look like.
The volume shows how emerging scholars can sustain disciplinary rigour while engaging wider ecological, political, societal, and perceptual concerns. Instead of treating climate change purely as scientific or policy analysis, the book approaches future-oriented thinking as a domain of imagination, design, and governance. Initial chapters translate climate change into lived or felt experience through creative performance, visual practice, and palaeoclimate analogues, then move to infrastructure design, fair transport decarbonisation, renewable energy markets, and inclusive water governance. The final section considers governance, law, and institutional responsibility, illustrating how climate futures unfold in sanitation systems, mining towns, carbon markets, and environmental rights frameworks. Throughout, contributors emphasise that climate futures are lived, negotiated, and unevenly experienced. Their analyses foreground justice, lived experience, and practical insight, while recognising the need for future research that connects grounded practices to accelerating risks and inequalities.
Breaking academic barriers to inspire new and innovative research approaches, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, and human rights, as well as to policymakers, activists, NGOs and public interest lawyers.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword: Piers Forster
Guest Note: From Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and Headingley
Preface and Acknowledgements: Susan Ann Samuel
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Towards Plural Climate Futures - The Work of a New Generation
Richard Beardsworth
Part I: Imagining Climate Futures
2. What's the story? Exploring the Communicative Capacities of Large Puppets in Creative Climate Change Communications
Bev Adams and Adam Strickson
3. Back to the Future - Can the climate 3 million years ago help us to understand our future(s)?
Lauren Burton, Alan Haywood, Julia Tindall, Daniel Hill, and Aisling Dolan
4. Embodied Futures: Arts Practices and Entangled Perceptual Possibilities
Benjamin Skinner
Part II: Designing Systems for Climate Futures
5. Leveraging System Change for Fair Transport Decarbonisation
Vanessa Ternes
6. Policy and Wholesale Electricity Market Futures for a GB Decarbonised Power System
Samuel Birch
7. Water Governance and Institutional Adaptation for Climate Futures: The Case of West Java Province, Indonesia
Dewa Wishanti
Part III: Governing Climate Futures
8. Lost In Transition? Equity in Planning and Funding of Climate-Adaptive Urban Sanitation
Leonie Hyde-Smith, Anna Mdee, Katy Roelich, and Barbara Evans
9. Infrastructures Of Legitimacy: Navigating Strategic Responsibilities from Below in Ghana's Mining Frontiers
Alesia Ofori and Vivian Nsiah
10. The Future of Carbon Market Institutions in the Paris-era
Jihyung Joo, Jouni Paavola, and James Van Alstine
11. Unpacking The Right to A Healthy Environment in a Political-Legal Discourse: A 'Bold Action' for Climate Futures?
Susan Ann Samuel
12. Conclusion: In Pursuit of Hope — Lessons, Limits, and Future Directions
Susan Ann Samuel and Viktoria Spaiser
Index
