文档介绍：Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of linked phenomena which both constitute and connect to it. In the opening chapter, Roy Bhaskar makes use of the extensive resources of critical realism to articulate prehensive framework for multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, trans- disciplinarity and cross-disciplinary understanding, one which duly takes account of ontological as well as epistemological considerations. Many of the subsequent chapters seek to show how this general approach can be used to make intellectual sense of plex phenomena in and around the issue of climate change, including our response to it. Among the issues discussed, in a number of graphic pelling studies, by a range of distinguished contributors, both activists and scholars, are: ? The dangers of reducing all environmental, energy and climate gas issues to questions of carbon dioxide emissions ? The problems of integrating natural and social scienti?c work and the perils of mono- disciplinary tunnel vision ? The consequences of the neglect of issues of consumption in climate policy ? The desirability of a care-based ethics and of the integration of cultural considerations into climate policy ? The problem of relating theoretical knowledge to practical action in contemporary democratic societies Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is essential reading for all serious students of the ?ght against climate change, the interactions between public bodies, and critical realism. Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and in?uential works, including A Realist Theory of Science , The Possibility of Naturalism , Scienti?c Realism and Human Ema