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Book Synopsis While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective.
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Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Introducing the Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Paul Sillitoe
Part I: Local Weather Knowledge
Chapter 1. There’s Something in the Air – But What? On Amazon People’s Perception of Atmospheric Phenomena
Dan Rosengren
Chapter 2. Climate Change, Weather and Perception: Fishing in Eastern Patagonia
Francesca Marin
Part II: Adaptation Challenges
Chapter 3. Indigenous Responses to Climate Change in Extreme Environments: The Cases of the Q’eros (Peruvian Andes) and the Gwich’in (Alaska)
Nastassja Martin and Geremia Cometti
Chapter 4. Fornicating Frogs: Local Knowledge of Climate Change in Bangladesh?
Paul Sillitoe and Mahbub Alam
Appendix: Climate Change Questionnaire
Chapter 5. Weather, Agency and Values at Work in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria
Herta Nöbauer
Chapter 6. The Moral Climate of Melting Glaciers: Andean Claims for Justice at the Paris Climate Change Summit
Noah Walker-Crawford
Part III: Flows of Knowledge
Chapter 7. Making Sense of Climate Science: From Climate Knowledge to Decision-Making
Maria Ines Carabajal and Cecilia Hidalgo
Chapter 8. Practicing Anthropology by Providing Climate Services for Farmers: The Case of Science Field Shops in Indonesia
Yunita T. Winarto
Chapter 9. Nepal's Climate-Change Cultural World
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
Part IV: Climate Politics
Chapter 10. Down to Air. Palestinian Memories and Practices of Weather Relatedness
Mauro Van Aken
Chapter 11. Imagining Nations and Producing Climate-Change Knowledge in Brazil
André S. Bailão
Chapter 12. Embanking the Sundarbans: The Obfuscating Discourse of Climate Change
Camelia Dewan
Afterword
David Shankland
Index
