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Climate change has become a crucial issue in public and political debates worldwide. Over the past 30 years, societal and individual awareness of climate challenges has significantly increased. Climate change impacts all aspects of life, influencing personal lifestyle choices, political behavior, and perceptions of the planet's fate and the future of humanity. Beyond legal and political measures (e.g. pollution taxes, energy policies…), the engagement of individuals and local communities has become essential for the necessary systemic change. Understanding complex human and social dynamics is key to achieving real change, in favor of a resilient and low-carbon future. This collective book highlights the theoretical and practical contributions of social sciences and humanities to the understanding of how humans perceive and respond to climate change, and how they can fight climate disruption and its effects, with an international and intercontinental perspective. The book demonstrates how communication sciences, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, education sciences, and management studies explore the nexus between climate change and human and social dynamics in political, individual and collective actions. It also shows how different disciplines can collaborate by combining methodological and theoretical components, and interpreting together research results: the book offers interdisciplinary case studies of actions that have taken place worldwide and addresses the need for further interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations. It demonstrates that a deeper involvement of social sciences and humanities is required to dive into the complexities of our social relation to a changing environment, and to pave the way to a real ecological transition.
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Catellani, A., Cougnon, L.-A., Gjerstad Øyvind, & Nugier Armelle. (2025). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245055