DOI: 10.1002/wcc.161
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84858660535
论文题名: Polarized climates: The distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War
作者: Luedtke B ; , Howkins A
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2012
卷: 3, 期: 2 起始页码: 145
结束页码: 159
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Global warming
; Social sciences
; Antarctic Treaty System
; Climate research
; Comparative approach
; Environmental change
; Historical experience
; Polar Regions
; Political structure
; Research agenda
; Climate change
英文摘要: This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of climate change on a global scale, and research agendas have been closely connected in the two regions. Viewed from a comparative perspective, however, the historical experiences of global warming in the Arctic and Antarctica have been quite different. Climate research has suggested that warming is generally happening faster over much of the Arctic than the Antarctic. In addition, the recent histories of the two regions show that climate change in the Arctic is destabilizing politics there, whereas in Antarctica climate change is helping to reinforce the existing political structures framed by the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). A comparative approach to the history of climate change in the Polar Regions helps to demonstrate that science, politics, and environmental change have each played important roles without making any single factor deterministic. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76412
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States; Department of History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Recommended Citation:
Luedtke B,, Howkins A. Polarized climates: The distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2012-01-01,3(2)