Climate Futures Across Disciplines

A Next Generation Approach
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-95231-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samuel, Susan Ann

Beardsworth, Richard

Spaiser, Viktoria

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Ann Samuel is a lawyer in India and completed her PhD in International Relations from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on environmental law, climate politics, human rights, and sustainable development.

Richard Beardsworth is Professor of International Relations, Head of the School of Politics and International Studies, and Principal Fellow at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds. His present research focuses on international climate leadership, geopolitics and climate insurance, and reframing net zero in a populist age, with a view to carbon budget overshoot.

Viktoria Spaiser is Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science at the University of Leeds—School of Politics and International Studies, United Kingdom. She is also affiliated with the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures.