Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295741392 ISBN 13: 9780295741390

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2017

Synopsis

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach the politics of climate change from a new perspective.

Making Climate Change History provides the necessary background to give readers the opportunity to pose critical questions and create plausible answers to help them understand climate change in its historical context; it also illustrates the relevance of history to building effective strategies for dealing with the climatic challenges of the future.

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About the Authors

Joshua P. Howe is associate professor history and environmental studies at Reed College. He is author of Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (University of Washington Press, 2014) and editor of Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming’s Past (University of Washington Press, 2017).

Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (University of Washington Press, 2005) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295741392
• ISBN 13: 9780295741390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Howe Joshua P.