Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change
Article Type: Books and resources From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 3, Issue 1
Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank, Karl-Georg Hoyer, Petter Naess and Jenneth Parker,Routledge,New York, NY,January 2010,258 pp.,ISBN 9780415573887,US$ 44.95
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 a comprehensive framework for multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity 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 the complex phenomena in and around the issue of climate change, including our response to it.
The book makes a good reading for students interested on the fight against climate change, the interactions between governmental bodies, and critical realism.
