This module builds on, and complements, the Year 2 module `Climate Change: science and policy', but adopts cultural, sociological, philosophical and psychological approaches to understanding climate change in society: what can be called `the human geography of climate change'. Climate change risks and opportunities are perceived very differently within and between societies and cultures. This module explores some of the reasons for these differences in perception, including issues such as cultural cognition of risk, climate change ethics, science controversies and climate contrarianism. The module also considers how climate change is represented in the media through language, metaphor and image, practices which shape public and policy discourse around climate change. In recent years, the creative arts have represented the idea of climate change through the imagination ' in film, fiction and visual form. Some of this work will be introduced and analysed in terms of communication, public engagement and human values. Students will have a chance to explore some of these aspects through mini-projects which will be discussed in class seminars.