On the ‘two degrees’ policy target

(3 October 2012)  ‘On the two degrees policy target’.  I have written this short essay (read here: see pp.122-125), explaining why ‘two degrees’ is unhelpful as a policy target, as a contribution to the newly published book edited by Ottmar Edenhofer and colleagues — Climate change, justice and sustainability: linking climate and development policy  Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 380pp.

The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram

(6 October 2012)  NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’  Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science  6(1), 75-89.  Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.

Religion and climate change

(26 September 2012)  ‘How the world’s religions are responding to climate change: social scientific investigations’.  This new book is to be published by Routledge next year, edited by Haluza-DeLay,  Veldman and Szasz.  I have written a short Forward to the book which can be accessed here.

IPBES: learning from the IPCC

(23 August)   IPBES: learning from the IPCC.  I have co-authored a Commentary in Nature in which we draw lessons from the IPCC experience about how knowledge, culture and policy can better be brought together in international assessments.  Turnhout,E., Bloomfield,B., Hulme,M., Vogel,J. and Wynne,B. (2012)  Conservation policy: listen to the voices of experience  Nature  488, 454-455.

Video: Imagining Change

(16 April)  Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations is a new 17 minute film which features three projects from the AHRC Lanscape and Environment Programme for which I was an advisor.  The film showcases different kinds of creative engagements between arts and humanities scholars and coastal landscapes and is suggestive of how environmental sciences and humanities can together understand the cultural dimensions […]