Interdisciplinarity and the Challenges of Environmental Sensemaking

Climate change has been described as the archetypal ―wicked problem‖ — as one that ―does not lend itself to a solution‖ (Hulme 2009, 334, 359). In several ways, the phenomenon of climate change, in fact, reflects in an intense and unprecedented manner the socio-cultural (Hulme 2015) and moral (Gardiner 2006) dilemmas of the present. Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis published subsequent to a momentous event — the signing of the Paris Agreement (2016) — makes a powerful case for recantering the criticality of the humanities in the debates over climate change and global warming.