Introduction to Special Theme Section “Accounting for Climate Change: Measurement, Management, Morality, and Myth”

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• Journal Title:
  Human Ecology
• Personal Author:
  Isenhour, Cindy ; O'Reilly, Jessica ; Yocum, Heather
• NOAA Program & Office:
  CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  This special section considers contemporary efforts to account for climate change through four frames: measurement, management, morality and myth. Our introduction briefly outlines these perspectives and the relevant literature, asking: 1) How have techniques of measurement and quantification emerged from and contributed to the particular politics of the “Anthropocene”?; 2) How have our efforts to measure socioclimatic systems facilitated new techniques of socio-environmental management and, at times, worked to reshape the very systems they describe?; 3) How have accounting practices worked to both elucidate and obscure questions of morality, value, responsibility and justice?; and 4) How we might address the critique that climate science is a myth and improve understanding with greater incorporation of historical and cross cultural knowledge from human ecology, human geography and anthropology.
• Keywords:
  Climate Change Sociology Climate Change
• Source:
  Hum Ecol 44, 647–654 (2016)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9866-1
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Accepted Manuscript
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha256:f60c95e1770ca80da3c89cf5a188a34390eea43830ffc712c2ea52535fc11595
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33239/noaa_33239_DS1.pdf
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