Climate Change Science, Environmental Challenges, and Cultural Anxiety: Historical and Social Perspectives

该项目由科学、技术和社会计划资助，支持于2009年4月1日至4日在缅因州沃特维尔科尔比学院举行的气候变化历史观点会议。这个题为“气候变化科学、环境挑战和文化焦虑：历史视角”的会议是国际性的，跨学科的，跨代的，包括研究生和本科生。努力招募少数民族和代表性不足群体的参与者。全体会议向公众发布广告。会议之后是讨论为《奥西里斯》特刊准备的论文，第26节，其中还包括这次会议的书面评论。研究生和本科生都参与其中，前者在一个旨在改进论文的特别会议上展示他们的工作，后者阅读所有预先分发的论文，并担任会议工作人员和与会者。气候及其变化的历史研究领域在过去十年中开始出现，现在已经准备好吸引和吸引大量新的和现有的人才。十年前，这样的聚会是不可能的。今天，它代表了一个不断发展的领域的前沿，与气候变化在科学和社会方面以及在科学和技术史上应用于内部和公共政策考虑的最佳实践直接相关。我的目的是把这次会议写成一卷既具有充分的历史意义，又具有充分的相关性。这次会议将为一系列紧迫的公共问题带来新的视角，巩固已知的和需要进一步探索的，并作为这一跨学科领域历史工作的决定性时刻。

This project funded by the Science, Technology & Society Program supports a conference on historical perspectives on climate change at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1-4 April 2009. This conference, titled "Climate Change Science, Environmental Challenges, and Cultural Anxiety: Historical Perspectives," is international in scope, interdisciplinary in nature, and intergenerational in its inclusion of both graduate and undergraduate students. Efforts are made to recruit minority participants and those from underrepresented groups. A conference plenary session is advertised to the general public. The conference is followed by discussion of the presented papers being prepared for a special issue of Osiris, v. 26, which also includes written commentaries from this meeting. Graduate and undergraduate students are involved, with the former presenting their work in a special session aimed at dissertation improvement and the latter reading all the pre-circulated papers and serving as conference staff and attendees. The field of historical studies of climate and its changes has begun to emerge in the past decade and is now poised to attract and engage a critical mass of new and existing talent. Ten years ago this gathering would not have been possible. Today, it represents the cutting edge of a growing field, with direct relevance to climate change in its scientific and social aspects and to best practices in the history of science and technology as applied both internally and to public policy considerations. The intent is to produce a volume out of this conference that is both fully historical and fully relevant. This meeting will bring new perspectives to bear on a pressing set of public issues, consolidate that which is known and that which needs further exploration, and serve as a defining moment for historical work in this interdisciplinary field.