Engaging climate change: cultural geography and worldly theory

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

S are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the...

Cultural and Social Geography

Talk of the city: engaging urbanites on climate change

Climate change requires societal engagement on both mitigation and adaptation. With a growing majority of people living in cities, urban dwellers and municipal decision-makers will need to reduce their emissions and other impacts on the regional and global climate while dealing with the unavoidable near-term and potential longer-term impacts of climate change. To facilitate effective societal r...

Engaging With Slowness: A Temporal Experience of Climate Change

Slow Technology is an opportunity to create reflective, mesmerizing and tangible experiences of temporality in relation to human perspectives and situated experiences. Hallnas and Redstrom [1] proposed the concepts of ‘reflective’ and ‘time’ technology as part of their design philosophy of slowness; this paper focuses on these concepts in reference to a specific time based artwork that explores...

Cultural Geography Model Validation

In the current warfighting environment, the military needs robust modeling and simulation (M&S) to support Irregular Warfare (IW) analysis across the range of tactical, operational, and strategic levels of warfare to help inform decisions concerning operations within the IW environment. In support of this need, the military requires a responsive family of Models, Methods, and Tools (MMT) able t...