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Climate cultures : anthropological perspectives on climate change /
"Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science, pol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Yale agrarian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove
- Historic decentering of the modern discourse of climate change : the long view from the Vedic sages to Montesquieu / Michael R. Dove
- How long-standing debates have shaped recent climate change discourses / Ben Orlove, Heather Lazrus, Grete K. Hovelsrud, and Alessandra Giannini
- From conservation and development to climate change : anthropological engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam / Pamela McElwee
- Glacial dramas : typos, projections, and peer review in the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Jessica O'Reilly
- Scale and agency: climate change and the future of Egypt's water / Jessica Barnes
- Satellite imagery and community perceptions of climate change impacts and landscape change / Karina Yager
- Challenges in integrating the climate and social sciences for studies of climate change impacts and adaptation / Frances C. Moore, Justin S. Mankin, and Austin Becker
- Imagining forest futures and climate change : the Mexican state as insurance broker and storyteller / Andrew S. Mathews
- Digging deeper into the why : cultural dimensions of climate change skepticism among scientists / Myanna Lahsen
- The uniqueness of the everyday : herders and invasive species in India / Rajindra K. Puri
- Climate shock and awe : can there be an "ethno-science" of deep-time Mande palaeoclimate memory? / Roderick J. McIntosh
- Afterword : the many uses of climate change / Mike Hulme.