Cooling down : local responses to global climate change /: local responses to global climate change. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Paulo Mendes.
• Editors: Hoffman, Susannah M; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Mendes, Paulo
• Contents: List of Figures; 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.7387452; Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800731905
• Related ISBNs: 9781800731899; 9781800734173
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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