ISBN:
9781800731905
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (402 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Abstract:
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Paulo Mendes -- Part I: Ways of Knowing -- Chapter 1. Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change -- Michael Schnegg -- Chapter 2. How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas -- Alex Aisher -- Chapter 3. Who is Perturbed by Perturbations? Marine Scientists' and Polynesian Fishers' Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak -- Matthew Lauer, Terava Atger, Sally J. Holbrook, Andrew Rassweiler, Russell J. Schmitt, and Jean Wencelius -- Chapter 4. Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém (PA): Environmental Memories and Urban Flood -- Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araujo Soares -- Part II: Situations and Decisions -- Chapter 5. Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations -- Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan -- Chapter 6. Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Over-simplification of Local Responses -- Brian Orland, Meredith Welch-Devine, and Micah Taylor -- Chapter 7. 'The Times They Are a-Changin' but 'The Song Remains The Same': Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand -- Paul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic -- Chapter 8. Climate Change and East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary Tales -- A. Peter Castro -- Chapter 9. “Our Existence is Literally Melting Away”: Narrative and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria -- Herta Nobauer -- Part III: Politics, Policies, and Contestation -- Chapter 10. Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley -- Kristoffer Albris -- Chapter 11. Climate Resilience Through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United States -- Julie Maldonado and Beth Rose Middleton -- Chapter 12. The Return of What Has Not Been Gone: A View of Animal Presence in Future Natures -- Guilherme José da Silva e Sá -- Chapter 13. Emitting Inequity: The Socio-Political Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Roberto E. Barrios and Amanda Leppert -- Chapter 14. Disaster and Climate Change -- Susanna M. Hoffman -- Afterword: Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System -- Hans A. Baer -- Index
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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