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Cooling down local responses to global climate change /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hoffman, Susannah M., Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Mendes, Paulo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (volumes cm.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781800731899
1800731892
9781800734173
1800734174