What Have Future Generations Done for Me Lately?: Climate Change Causes, Consequences, and Challenges in the New Millennium

Maxwell T. Boykoff is a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute and a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford. During the previous two years he was a James Martin 21^st Century School Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has explored the cultural politics of climate change in everyday spaces, as his research has investigated how various nonstate actors influence climate science, policy and practice. His research includes analyses of media coverage of climate change, how certain discourses influence environmental policy considerations, the role of celebrity endeavors in climate change issues, and links to ethics, environmental justice movements, climate adaptation and public understanding. Recent publications include peer-reviewed articles in Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Climatic Change. He has also recently written a related commentary in Nature Reports Climate Change and a paper for the 2007 UNDP Human Development Report.