(30 November) Blog Post: ‘Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?’ Jan Selby and I answer this question with a ‘no’.
Author: Mike Hulme
‘Knowledge pluralism’ [and climate governance]
(23 November) NEW Book chapter. ‘Knowledge pluralism‘ has now been published as Chapter 49 in Backstrand,K. and Lovbrand,E. (2015) Research Handbook on Climate Governance Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 630pp.
Inaugural lecture podcast
Four new papers published
(6 November) NEW papers now published. The following four papers are now all published on-line: Turnhout,E., Dewulf,A. and Hulme,M. (2016) ‘What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity‘ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 18, 65-72; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Finding the message of the Pope’s Encyclical‘ Environment 57(6), 16-19; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Changing […]
Major Publications 2015
Borie,M. and Hulme,M. (2015) Framing global biodiversity: IPBES between Mother Earth and ecosystem services Environmental Science & Policy 54, 487-496 Hulme,M. (2015) (Still) Disagreeing about climate change: which way forward? Zygon: A Journal of Religion and Science 50(4), 893-905 Hulme,M. (2015) Afterword: The many uses of climate change pp.289-299 in: Climate cultures: anthropological perspectives on […]
‘(Still) Disagreeing about climate change: what way forward?’
(30 October) NEW paper. ‘(Still) Disagreeing about climate change: what way forward?’ will be published in the next issue (December 2015) of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.
‘What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do?’
(26 October) NEW paper. ‘What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity‘. Written with Dutch colleagues Esther Turnhout and Art Dewulf, this paper will appear shortly in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
The language of weather and climate
(25 August 2015) ‘The language of weather and climate‘. You can link here to my contribution to Stephen Fry’s programme on this topic – BBC Radio 4’s Fry’s English Delight, originally broadcast on 18 August.
‘Varieties of religious engagement with climate change’
(26 August 2015) NEW manuscript. ‘Varieties of religious engagement with climate change‘, my contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Religion and Ecology (edited by Mary Tucker, Willis Jenkins and John Grim).
What does the Pope have to say about climate change?
(30 June) ‘What does the Pope have to say about climate change?‘ Read my blog on the King’s Geography web-site about the recent Papal Encyclical.

