Cooling Down : Local Responses to Global Climate Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Susanna.

Contributor:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.

Mendes, Paulo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on--Case studies.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Ways of Knowing

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

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

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781800731905

1800731906

OCLC:

1347246764

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access