{"id":838,"date":"2012-11-08T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:05:42","slug":"hurricane-sandy-and-the-climate-change-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/hurricane-sandy-and-the-climate-change-debate","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy and the Climate Change Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the scene just down the street from the Berghahn offices in DUMBO the night of Hurricane Sandy &#8211; our office is just outside the frame of this particular photo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hurricane-sandy-br_2382797b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848\" title=\"AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hurricane-sandy-br_2382797b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hurricane-sandy-br_2382797b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hurricane-sandy-br_2382797b-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hurricane-sandy-br_2382797b-473x300.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Photo: AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over 3 million gallons of water have been pumped from the basement of our office building since then, and we are glad to report that everyone on staff made it through safe and sound (albeit without heat this week but we\u2019re bundled up and hanging in there).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though recovery has been fairly swift in our area, the images of the \u201cFrankenstorm\u201d and its aftermath have brought the issues of climate change and sustainability to the forefront of political discourse in the United States. Bloomberg Businessweek took the blunt approach:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bloomberg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-864\" title=\"Bloomberg Businessweek\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bloomberg1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bloomberg1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bloomberg1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Photo: Bloomberg Businessweek)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At Berghahn Journals, we\u2019re proud to publish a selection of journals that take a more scholarly approach to environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AIR-ES-cvr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-844 alignleft\" title=\"AiR-ES\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AIR-ES-cvr1-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NC-cvr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-843 alignleft\" title=\"Nature and Culture\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NC-cvr-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>In the next few weeks, we will be posting the online version of <em><strong>Environment and Society<\/strong><\/em> Volume 3, which focuses on Capitalism and the Environment. Preview the Table of\u00a0Contents on the journal\u2019s main page, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/air-es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next Spring, we are excited to be publishing <em><strong>Nature + Culture<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s Special Symposium on \u201cNature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development?\u201d, the Table of Contents for which is posted on the journal\u2019s main page, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/nc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In our most recent issue of <em><strong>Nature + Culture<\/strong><\/em>, several articles focus on approaches to sustainability:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/berghahn\/natcult\/2012\/00000007\/00000003\/art00003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainability in the Water Sector: Enabling Lasting Change through Leadership and Cultural Transformation<\/a> by Wendy Lynne Lee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/berghahn\/natcult\/2012\/00000007\/00000003\/art00004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Environmental Impacts of Militarization in Comparative Perspective: An Overlooked Relationship<\/a> by Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Jennifer E. Givens<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/berghahn\/natcult\/2012\/00000007\/00000003\/art00005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Review Essay: Just Plain Disappointment: Why Contemporary Thinking About Environmental Sustainability Needs To Be More Courageous<\/a> by Wendy Lynne Lee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, we hope that the work of scholars such as those published in our journals will continue to contribute to the discourse on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the scene just down the street from the Berghahn offices in DUMBO the night of Hurricane Sandy &#8211; our office is just outside the frame of this particular photo: (Photo: AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews) Over 3 million gallons of water have been pumped from the basement of our office building since then, and we&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/hurricane-sandy-and-the-climate-change-debate\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,222],"tags":[414,84,241,659,550,171,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21203,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/21203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}