A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift

417 Pages·2014·4.862 MB·English

by  Jim Norwine (auth.), Jim Norwine (eds.)

A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift
Jim Norwine
Editor
A World After Climate
Change and Culture-Shift
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Editor
JimNorwine
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Oklahoma,USA
ISBN978-94-007-7352-3 ISBN978-94-007-7353-0(eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0
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Acknowledgments
Iwasathissideputtingtogethereverything,mydelight
increasingeachday,playingbeforehimallthewhile,playingin
thisworldmadeofdustandmydelightwastobewiththesons
ofmen.Proverbs8:30–31(LatinVulgatetranslation).
ThisbookwouldnothavecomeintobeingwithoutCarlaSuson’sconsistentlybrilliant
editing;ColleenNorwine’skeyinsights;EvelienBakker’s(SeniorPublishingEditor,
Springer-Dordrecht)encouragementandsupport;thehelp,tolerance,andfriendship
ofcolleaguesatTexasA&MUniversity-Kingsville,particularlyTomMcGehee,Jae
Yu,KermetaClayton,andRexGandy;and,notleast,thecommitmentanddedication
ofexpertcontributorsfromallcornersoftheglobe.
Finally,Iwanttoacknowledgemygreatdebttotwoluminariesoftheirrespective
generationsofacademicgeographers:WilburZelinsky(emeritus,ThePennsylvania
State University) for his insightful critical reading of an early-stage version of the
manuscript;andJonathanM.Smith(TexasA&MUniversity)formoralandintellec-
tualsupport,guidance,andencouragementwithoutwhichthisbookwouldremaina
dream.
Myprofoundthankstoall.
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Contents
1 Introduction:ImaginingtheUnimaginable........................ 1
JimNorwine
PartI SettingtheStage
2 Estrangement:ABeginner’sGuidetotheStrangenessoftheWorld.. 15
JonathanM.Smith
3 GlobalClimateChange ......................................... 25
GeraldR.North
4 AnEvolvingWorldview:Culture-ShiftinUniversityStudents....... 43
MichaelS.Bruner,JohnDavenport,andJimNorwine
PartII ImaginingaWorld:GeneralImpactsandImplications
5 Field Notes from the Future: Environmental Conditions at Four
Localitiesin2100 .............................................. 67
MichaelJennings
6 Getting From Here toThere: Policy Pathways toAddress Human
MobilityintheContextofClimateChange........................ 89
KokoWarner
7 TheGood,theBad,andtheUgly:ThoughtsonPossibleOutcomes... 113
JohnDavenport
PartIII ImaginingaWorld:SpecificRegionalImpactsandImplications
8 Europe2050–2100:ImaginingNewLifeways/Lifestyles............. 141
NiemTuHuynhandAnkeUhlenwinkel
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9 TheProjectedDeathoftheFertileCrescent ...................... 193
PinhasAlpert,FengjunJin,andAkioKitoh
10 TheFutureoftheMiddleEast................................... 205
IlhanKaya,YilmazAri,andHakkıYazici
11 ImaginedLifewaysinNorthAmericaca.2100..................... 225
MarkBjelland,MichaelS.Bruner,andJohnDavenport
12 Climate Change and Its Impact on Cultural Shifts in East
andSoutheastAsia ............................................. 245
NiemTuHuynh,WenLin, L.ReneeNess, DarleneOcceña-Gutierrez,
andXuânDuyTrâ`n
Part IV Inhabiting an Imagined World: Better or Worse?
FourInterpretations
13 ThePostmodernEnvironment ................................... 305
GladdenJ.Pappin
14 BlissfulDevolution:OurRollingJudgmentDay ................... 327
DavidJ.Nemeth
15 TheGuiltofHollowMen:GlobalWarmingasPostmodernApocalypse 351
JonathanM.Smith
16 CollidingwithReality:LiquidModernityandtheEnvironment ..... 363
ArranGare
17 Epilogue:TheEndoftheArcticasWeKnowIt.................... 393
RobertHarriss
Index ............................................................ 405
Contributors
PinhasAlpert Department of Geophysics,Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Tel-AvivUniversity,Tel-Aviv,Israel
YilmazAri BalikesirUniversity,Balikesir,Turkey
MarkBjelland DepartmentofGeology,Geography,andEnvironmentalStudies,
CalvinCollege,GrandRapids,Michigan,USA
Michael S. Bruner Department of Communication, Humboldt State University,
Arcata,California,USA
JohnDavenport DepartmentofGeography,OklahomaStateUniversity,Stillwa-
ter,Oklahoma,USA
ArranGare PhilosophyandCulturalInquiry,SwinburneUniversity,Melbourne,
Victoria,Australia
RobertHarriss EnvironmentalDefenseFund,Boulder,Colorado,USA
NiemTuHuynh AssociationofAmericanGeographers,Washington,DC,USA
Michael Jennings Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow,
Idaho,USA
Fengjun Jin Climate Change Monitoring and Assessment Center, Xiamen
MeterologicalAdministration,XiamenCity,FujianProvince,China
IlhanKaya DepartmentofGeography,DicleUniversity,Diyarbakir,Turkey
AkioKitoh FacultyofLifeandEnvironmentalSciences, UniversityofTsukuba,
Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan
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xii Contributors
Wen Lin School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University,
NewcastleuponTyne,UK
David J. Nemeth Department of Geography and Planning, The University of
Toledo,Toledo,Ohio,USA
L. Renee Ness Center for International Studies, Texas State University-San
Marcos,SanMarcos,Texas,USA
Gerald R. North Department ofAtmospheric Sciences, TexasA&M University,
CollegeStation,Texas,USA
Jim Norwine Regents Professor Emeritus of Physics and Geosciences, Depart-
ment of Physics and Geosciences, TexasA&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville,
Texas,USA
Darlene Occeña-Gutierrez Department of Geography, University of the Philip-
pines,Diliman,QuezonCity,Philippines
GladdenJ.Pappin ProgramonConstitutionalGovernment, HarvardUniversity,
Cambridge,Massachusetts,USA
JonathanM.Smith DepartmentofGeography,TexasA&MUniversity, College
Station,Texas,USA
Xuân Duy Trâ`n Department of Geography, Hanoi National University of
Education,Hanoi,Vietnam
AnkeUhlenwinkel DepartmentofGeography,Justus-Liebig-UniversitätGießen,
Gießen,Germany
Koko Warner Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation,
UnitedNationsInstituteforEnvironmentandHumanSecurity,Bonn,Germany
HakkıYazici AfyonKocatepeUniversity,Afyonkarahisar,Turkey