Cultural dynamics of climate change and the environment in Northern America / edited by Bernd Sommer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommer, Bernd.

Contributor:

Sommer, Bernd, editor.

Series:

Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 3.

Climate and Culture, 2213-0519 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming--Social aspects--North America.

Global warming.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--North America.

Climatic changes.

Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2015

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world’s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, educational studies, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society–nature interactions in – culturally as well as ecologically – one of the most diverse regions of the world. Contributors include: Omer Aijazi, Roland Benedikter, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Eugene Cordero, Martin David, Demetrius Eudell, Michael K. Goodman, Frederic Hanusch, Naotaka Hayashi, Jürgen Heinrichs, Grit Martinez, Antonia Mehnert, Angela G. Mertig, Michael J. Paolisso, Eleonora Rohland, Karin Schürmann, Bernd Sommer, Kenneth M. Sylvester, Anne Marie Todd, Richard Tucker, and Sam White.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America / Bernd Sommer

1 The “American Way of Life” and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment / Roland Benedikter , Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd

2 From Conservationists to Environmentalists: The American ­Environmental Movement / Angela G. Mertig

3 The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy / Frederic Hanusch

4 North American Climate History / Samuel White , Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker

5 Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718–1794 / Eleonora Rohland

6 The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change before ­Hurricane Katrina / Demetrius L. Eudell

7 Science (and Policy) Friction: How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Michael K. Goodman

8 “Save Ga. Ride this Bus”: Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America / Jürgen Heinrichs

9 Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast: A Practice Theoretical Analysis / Karin Schürmann

10 A New Clayoquot? Examining the Convergence of First Nations and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver’s Anti-Pipeline Protests / Omer Aijazi and Martin David

11 Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community ­Development in Greenland / Naotaka Hayashi

12 Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US / Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso

13 “Back to the Future”: Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature / Antonia Mehnert

Bibliography / Bernd Sommer

Index / Bernd Sommer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004300712

9004300716

OCLC:

911019692

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004300712 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access