ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the significance of aesthetic appreciation of place when aesthetic evaluators possess the climate change (CC) concept. CC is a predicted measureable increase in average global temperatures resulting from a critical accumulation of greenhouse effect producing gases. Although ecological science and natural history play significant roles in most accounts of environmental aesthetics, place is preferable over ecosystem as a term denoting the possibility of aesthetic engagement. Part of what is characteristic of natural environments is that they include place types – deserts, valleys, coral reefs, etc. – where the prominent features for aesthetic appreciation are not artifactual or at least obviously anthropogenic. A consideration of place types also allows consideration of how place-derived aesthetic expectations may themselves evolve as sensitivities adjust to the features of place in a warming and warmer world.
