Debating Climate Change: A New Book

Mike Hulme | 13/06/2019

It is unusual to find myself agreeing with Nigel Farage. But a comment he made a few months ago about the importance of teaching critical thinking at British universities puts him on my side. “Ultimately it seems to me...

Companion to Environmental Studies

Mike Hulme | 09/05/2018

This new student reference book has just been published by Routledge, ‘A companion to environmental studies‘, edited by Noel Castree, Jim Proctor and myself. The book presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of around 150 key issues, debates, concepts,...

The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)

Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016

My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage. Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’. Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...

New book: “Weathered: Cultures of Climate”

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016 | 1 Comment

Weathered: Cultures of Climate, will be published by SAGE in November 2016. This book in many ways is a prequel to Why We Disagree About Climate Change (CUP, 2009), in the sense that it deepens our understanding of the...

Can science fix climate change? The case against climate engineering

Mike Hulme | 01/03/2015

(13 April 2015) Read these reviews of Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering: in Progress in Physical Geography (Noel Castree), from the London School of Economics (Amelia Sharman) and the Australian Institute of International Affairs...

Why We Disagree About Climate Change … top 20 influential books

Mike Hulme | 12/11/2014

(11 November 2015) Top 20 ‘most influential books’. For their academic book week, Cambridge University Press have selected 20 books that have most “influenced policy-making, contributed to social change and altered the intellectual landscape“. Included in their top 20,...

‘Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society’

Mike Hulme | 14/08/2014

(14 August, 2014) Review: David Simon, professor of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, has published this review of the book in the September issue of The Geographical Journal. (12 August, 2013) Newly Published Book: Exploring Climate Change Through Science And...

Climate and Cultures

Mike Hulme | 30/04/2014

(29 June) NEW Book Series. ‘Climates and cultures: the SAGE Library of the Environment‘. My six volume edited set contains 88 important journal articles and book chapters from the last 25 years dealing with: 1.Cultures of Climate Knowledge, 2.Historical...

Books Published

Mike Hulme | 16/09/2013

Hulme,M. (2013) Exploring climate change through science and in society: an anthology of Mike Hulme’s essays, interviews and speeches Routledge, Abingdon, 353pp. Hulme,M. and Neufeldt,H. (eds.) (2010) Making climate change work for us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation...