TY - CHAP
T1 - AI Agency in Climate Emergency
AU - Cheshmehzangi, Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - AI Agency in Climate Emergency is a daring and topical examination of how AI is evolving from a stand-alone solution to a crucial, integrated force in the fight against climate change. In a time of increasing inequality, dwindling forests, failing infrastructure, and rising oceans, it repositions AI as a new type of agent inside ecological, political, and social systems. The book's 20 chapters and six themes cover energy decarbonization, foresight, agriculture, ecological monitoring, green finance, carbon markets, civic involvement, and behavioural change. Its fundamental strength is AI's developing agency, which includes the ability to recognize patterns that are inaccessible to humans, adjust in real time, and close the knowledge-to-action gap. Yet this is not technological determinism. It is about ethics, imagination, and governance. Justice, transparency, and solidarity—not speed—must guide AI in climate action. The book envisions AI that is inclusive, adaptive, accountable, and context-aware, offering a roadmap for scholars, professionals, and citizens in the urgent systemic shift ahead.
AB - AI Agency in Climate Emergency is a daring and topical examination of how AI is evolving from a stand-alone solution to a crucial, integrated force in the fight against climate change. In a time of increasing inequality, dwindling forests, failing infrastructure, and rising oceans, it repositions AI as a new type of agent inside ecological, political, and social systems. The book's 20 chapters and six themes cover energy decarbonization, foresight, agriculture, ecological monitoring, green finance, carbon markets, civic involvement, and behavioural change. Its fundamental strength is AI's developing agency, which includes the ability to recognize patterns that are inaccessible to humans, adjust in real time, and close the knowledge-to-action gap. Yet this is not technological determinism. It is about ethics, imagination, and governance. Justice, transparency, and solidarity—not speed—must guide AI in climate action. The book envisions AI that is inclusive, adaptive, accountable, and context-aware, offering a roadmap for scholars, professionals, and citizens in the urgent systemic shift ahead.
KW - AI
KW - AI Agency
KW - AI Futures
KW - AI-Climate
KW - AI-driven
KW - Artificial Intelligence
KW - Carbon Market
KW - Climate
KW - Climate Change
KW - Climate Impact
KW - Climate action
KW - Climate crisis
KW - Climate emergency
KW - Climate resilience
KW - Climate science
KW - Climate systems
KW - Decarbonization
KW - Governance
KW - Green finance
KW - Warming
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105022474167
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-95-4192-8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-95-4192-8
M3 - Book Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105022474167
T3 - Urban Sustainability
SP - 1
EP - 224
BT - Urban Sustainability
PB - Springer
ER -
