This article explores how museums can help empower people to engage constructively with climate change, through applying a range of time-related concepts to their exhibitions and events. Museums are mostly collections of the past. Climate... more
This article explores how museums can help empower people to engage constructively with climate change, through applying a range of time-related concepts to their exhibitions and events. Museums are mostly collections of the past. Climate change now and future presents particular challenges as it is perceived to be psychologically distant. The link between this distance and effective climate action is complex and presents an opportunity for museums, as sites where psychological distance can be explored in safe, consequence-free ways. This paper explores how we can use museums to help develop understanding within the rhetoric of climate change to assist visitors with their personal or collective response to the climate challenge. Time-related concepts including Foucault’s heterotopia, long-term thinking as advocated in the History Manifesto and the ‘Big Here and Long Now’, are explored in relation to museums as potential tools for constructive climate change engagement.
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With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of... more
With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of severe future impacts, and the scale of mitigation required to avoid them, the likes of which few want to hear. This working paper reflects on the challenges and offers guidance for the way ahead.
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It is likely that you live in a crowded European city. You want fresh air when you cross the road, you want to see that everyone everywhere has quality of life, you want to know that plants and animals are safe from extinction through... more
It is likely that you live in a crowded European city. You want fresh air when you cross the road, you want to see that everyone everywhere has quality of life, you want to know that plants and animals are safe from extinction through local habitat destruction and globally from climate change. This world that we want needs a different type of scientific research to what has gone before. It needs research that can help solve environmental problems as well as better analyse and understand them. Future Earth has been created for scientists across all disciplines to work together with societies’ experts to find solutions to the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet. Here we describe this new global organisation called Future Earth and what it wants to achieve in Europe and how.
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File List Data files Data files are in ASCII format (tab-delimited text files). The file convention is: variable.name.ext File extensions: ASCII = .txt ; compressed files = .zip ; PDF = .pdf. Data and metadata files have been compressed... more
File List Data files Data files are in ASCII format (tab-delimited text files). The file convention is: variable.name.ext File extensions: ASCII = .txt ; compressed files = .zip ; PDF = .pdf. Data and metadata files have been compressed using Microsoft Windows XP file manager (right click / send to / compressed (zipped) folder). Eleven tab-delimited text files have been grouped and compressed as BIODEPTH.PROCESSES.zip BIODEPTH.PROCESSES.zip 100 kilobytes, (11 files) 1. Design.txt (lines=481, columns=9)<br> plot, location, block, composition, species.richness, functional.richness, grasses, legumes, forbs 2. Observed.Species.Richness.txt (lines=1441, columns=9)<br> year, plot, location, block, composition, species.richness, functional.richness, legumes, species.observed 3. Cover.txt (lines=1441; columns=9)<br> year, plot, location, block, composition, species.richness, functional.richness, legumes, cover 4. Shoots.txt (lines=1441; columns=9)<br> year, plot, loc...
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This guidebook provides information about the risks associated with climate change, as well as providing ideas, tools and techniques for those who need to start taking action today to prepare. It is primarily aimed at government officers... more
This guidebook provides information about the risks associated with climate change, as well as providing ideas, tools and techniques for those who need to start taking action today to prepare. It is primarily aimed at government officers who would like to learn more about climate change, its impacts and how to start preparing. Specifically, it has been written to facilitate incorporation of climate change into planning and development activities on small islands. The
general approach described is also useful for other geographic locations, enabling any reader to apply the recommendations and develop their own climate change adaptation plans.
This guidebook has been produced by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK, as part of a project: ‘XOT 005 Preparing for and adapting to climate change in the UK Overseas Territories’. It has been funded through the UK Overseas Territories Environment Programme, a joint initiative of the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in partnership with the UK Overseas Territories.
general approach described is also useful for other geographic locations, enabling any reader to apply the recommendations and develop their own climate change adaptation plans.
This guidebook has been produced by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK, as part of a project: ‘XOT 005 Preparing for and adapting to climate change in the UK Overseas Territories’. It has been funded through the UK Overseas Territories Environment Programme, a joint initiative of the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in partnership with the UK Overseas Territories.