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The Importance of the Humanities to the Climate Change Debate

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This chapter examines connections between the humanities (understood as a grouping of academic disciplines that includes history , philosophy , literature , language, art and music) and climate change. The relationship between the two has a long and complex past; a past which has informed, directed and helped co-create the current debate and its understanding as a ‘crisis’. It will be shown that climate change needs the kind of understanding that only the humanities can provide, and that the humanities have a crucially important role to play in the on-going debate.

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Elliott, A., Cullis, J. (2017). The Importance of the Humanities to the Climate Change Debate. In: Elliott, A., Cullis, J., Damodaran, V. (eds) Climate Change and the Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55124-5_2

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