Cooling down : local responses to global climate change /

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"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....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoffman, Susannah M. (Editor ), Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Editor ), Mendes, Paulo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2022.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Case studies.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on > Case studies.
Climat > Changements > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Climat > Changements > Effets de l'homme sur > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Ways of Knowing
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change
  • Chapter 2 How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas
  • Chapter 3 Who Is Perturbed by Ecological Perturbations? Marine Scientists' and Polynesian Fishers' Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak
  • Chapter 4 Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém, Brazil: Environmental Memories and Urban Floods
  • Part II. Situations and Decisions
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5 Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations
  • Chapter 6 Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Oversimplification of Local Responses
  • Chapter 7 "The Times They Are A-Changin'" but "The Song Remains the Same": Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Chapter 8 Climate Change and East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary Tales
  • Chapter 9 "Our Existence Is Literally Melting Away": Narrating and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria
  • Part III. Politics, Policies, and Contestation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 10 Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley
  • Chapter 11 Climate Resilience through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwestern United States
  • Chapter 12 The Return to What Has Never Been: A View on the Animal Presence in Future Natures
  • Chapter 13 Emitting Inequity: The Sociopolitical Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Chapter 14 Disaster and Climate Change
  • Afterword Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System
  • Index

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