Dr Malcolm Miles

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INTRODUCTION

This essay accompanies the programme Climate Change : Cultural Change developed by Helix Arts in partnership with CarbonNeutral Newcastle and NewcastleGateshead Initiative to coincide with the World Summit on Arts and Culture (June 14th-17th, 2006). Malcolm Miles is an academic and writer, working with graduate and research students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth.

The essay is in four parts:

• an outline of why dealing with climate change requires a change of culture;
• a commentary on the programme Climate Change : Cultural Change ;
• a context for Climate Change : Cultural Change in environmental art since the 1970s;
• a reflection on the limits of art in dealing with climate change.

Quotations introduce other voices. The essay is written for non-academic readers but followed by a set of notes on further reading for students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.