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Local Climate Change and Society.
Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society's relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and miti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in climate change research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Local Climate Change and Society; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Using local knowledge to shrink the individual carbon footprint; 2 What local climate change plans can teach us about city power; 3 The role of local government units in mainstreaming climate-change adaptation; 4 Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses in Xinjiang, China; 5 Local environmental initiatives in Chinese and Dutch societies.
- 6 Impacts and responses to climate change at the micro-spatial scale in Malawi, Botswana and Kenya7 Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+); 8 Pulp mills and mining Trajectories of non-traditional actors' limits of influence, Argentina; 9 Local campaigns against Shell or transnational campaigns against climate change?; 10 On economy, entropy and local climate change; Conclusion; Index.