The best books about the contested meanings of climate change.
Mike Hulme |
My selection of five great reads about the contested meanings of climate change has been posted at Shepherd’s, a new platform seeking to re-create something of the joy and serendipity of browsing the shelves of a real bookstore. As...
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How to Frame Climate Change

Mike Hulme |
This interview for the ‘Sustainability Agenda’ podcast with Fergal Byrne covers my expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs in general, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change– a reductionist framing of...

Prospective PhD Students

Mike Hulme |

Owing to my planned retirement in 2027, I am no longer accepting approaches from new PhD students. Current PhD students: Friederike Hartz (awarded October 2025: funded by AHRC and Pembroke College): Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world. Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Madeleine Ary Hahne […]

The cover of negotiating climate change amidst crisis.

Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Mike Hulme |
I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...