Bernd Sommer is a sociologist and head of the research division “Climate, Culture & Sustainability” at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research, European University Flensburg, Germany. In his research, he deals with the cultural and social dimensions of climate change as well as transformations of carbon-based societies.

• ForewordAcknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of Terms List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America - Bernd SommerPart 1: Ideas1 The “American Way of Life” and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment - Roland Benedikter, Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd2 From Conservationists to Environmentalists: The American Environmental Movement - Angela G. Mertig3 The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy - Frederic HanuschPart 2: Past4 North American Climate History - Samuel White, Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker5 Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 718–1794 - Eleonora Rohland6 The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change before Hurricane Katrina - Demetrius L. EudellPart 3: Present7 Science (and Policy) Friction: How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses - Maxwell T. Boykofff and Michael K. Goodman8 “Save Ga$. Ride this Bus”: Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America - Jürgen Heinrichs9 Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast: A Practice Theoretical Analysis - Karin Schürmann10 A New Clayoquot? Examining the Convergence of First Nations and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver’s Anti-Pipeline Protests - Omer Aijazi and Martin DavidPart 4: Prospects11 Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland - Naotaka Hayashi12 Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US - Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso13 “Back to the Future”: Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature - Antonia MehnertBibliographyIndex

Bernd Sommer is a sociologist and head of the research division “Climate, Culture & Sustainability” at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research, European University Flensburg, Germany. In his research, he deals with the cultural and social dimensions of climate change as well as transformations of carbon-based societies.

• ForewordAcknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of Terms List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America - Bernd SommerPart 1: Ideas1 The “American Way of Life” and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment - Roland Benedikter, Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd2 From Conservationists to Environmentalists: The American Environmental Movement - Angela G. Mertig3 The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy - Frederic HanuschPart 2: Past4 North American Climate History - Samuel White, Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker5 Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 718–1794 - Eleonora Rohland6 The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change before Hurricane Katrina - Demetrius L. EudellPart 3: Present7 Science (and Policy) Friction: How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses - Maxwell T. Boykofff and Michael K. Goodman8 “Save Ga$. Ride this Bus”: Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America - Jürgen Heinrichs9 Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast: A Practice Theoretical Analysis - Karin Schürmann10 A New Clayoquot? Examining the Convergence of First Nations and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver’s Anti-Pipeline Protests - Omer Aijazi and Martin DavidPart 4: Prospects11 Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland - Naotaka Hayashi12 Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US - Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso13 “Back to the Future”: Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature - Antonia MehnertBibliographyIndex