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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This is a remarkable read for three reasons. First, the breadth of topics addressed, second, the tacking back and forth from the micro to the macro perspective, and third, the particular attention paid in many of the chapters to concrete actions that could, if taken, help ameliorate the devastating consequences of climate change.” • Steve Kroll-Smith, University of North Carolina
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
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
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