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The voice of the social sciences in climate research and in climate policy discussions, except for interventions from economists mainly about the costs associated with policy options driven by climate science research, has been muted if not altogether absent. The absence of the social sciences from climate research and policy not surprisingly has coloured climate discourse in peculiar ways. We are making the case for a greater involvement and importance of the social sciences in interdisciplinary climate research.
It is not space but the structuring that comes from the soul that has social significance.
Georg Simmel ([1908] 1992)
Soil and climate together determine the natural fertility of a country and of its people who are led either to indolence or to activity.
Werner Sombart (1938)
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Received: September 26, 2008; accepted: October 2, 2008
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Stehr, N., von Storch, H. Climate Protection. J. Verbr. Lebensm. 4, 56–60 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00003-008-0392-y
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