Culture, Space and Climate Change

Translated Reviews from the German original Klimakulturen und Raum: Heimann's work represents an important addition to cultural and spatial research, particularly with regard to explanations for climate-cultural interpretation and action. (...) In addition to comprehensive background knowledge on climate change, on climate-cultural and communicative differences, and on the previous theoretical and methodological discourse, Heimann also offers significant new findings. His study is striking for having addressed the relation between space and culture, and for devising an approach for its investigation. (...) The innovative and profound theoretical and empirical approach of Culture, Space and Climate Change will be a rich resource for (...) social scientists interested in complex methods. -- Sybille Reitz, Chair of Energy and Environmental Policy, Technical University Munich; in: Pol-Int, pol-int.org, Februar 20, 2018 Altogether, Heimann provides an important contribution to the debates on environmental sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, and spatial theory. Of particular value, because of its potential to be transferred to other contexts, is the development of an integrated and diverse explanatory model for the differences in perception of climate change and climate-adaptation measures. A key accomplishment of Culture, Space and Climate Change is the unbiased sophistication of its conclusions, achieved only by the tremendous effort made to consider such a great breadth of factors. -- Oskar Marg, in: Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Jg. 76, 2018