How does climate change affect prosperity, tolerance and migration? Does it lead to hate-filled tirades, violence and war? Does it decrease performance at school and in sports? Social phenomena aren’t just the purview of the social sciences; climate research, too, takes a closer look at society. But why exactly?

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Lecturers from the Master’s class “Researching and Shaping Climate Futures” were finalists for the University of Hamburg’s newly introduced teaching award. Johanna Baehr, Jörn Behrens, Leonard Borchert, Lars Kutzbach, Matthias Revers, Simone Rödder and Jana Sillmann were honored in the category “Courageous and...

Simone Rödder and Peter Weingart presented recent work on “Science and its troubled relation to its publics” at the occasion of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST)’s 30th Anniversary Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa.