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Dan Taylor Climate Change and Threatened Communities (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Climate Change and Threatened Communities
- Title
- Climate Change and Threatened Communities
- EAN
- 9781853397356
- ISBN
- 9781853397356
- Release Date
- 04/15/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Contributor
- A. Peter Castro (Edited by)
- Subtitle
- Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
- ISBN-10
- 1853397350
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Genre
- Science Nature & Math
- Subject
- Social Sciences
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Climate Change and Threatened Communities : Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Practical Action Publishing
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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This book presents 15 case studies and a variety of approaches to document the capacities and constraints to be encountered among communities facing changing climates in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Practical Action Publishing
ISBN-10
1853397350
ISBN-13
9781853397356
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117329857
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Climate Change and Threatened Communities : Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qc903.2.D44c55 2012
Reviews
These 15 excellent anthropological case studies (plus introduction and conclusion) on climate change and diverse responses from communities in Africa, and the Americas utilize a variety of methodologies, ranging from standard ethnographic approaches and ethno-ecological investigations of localized knowledge, perception, and innovation to an archaeological examination of Mayan farming practices. The researchers emphasize the knowledge, capacities, interests, rights, agency, and adaptability of threatened populations of farmers, hearders, fishers, and foragers under conditions resulting from extreme and unpredictable weather, drought, floods, and population shifts. In addition to documenting environmental changes faced by communities at risk the authors point out that the peopole who are the most vulnerable are generally those lease responsible for their present circumstances. Indeed environmental difficulties are not simply consequences of climate change, but also are exacerbated by policies that have favored market liberalization, technological determinism, and structural inequality, resulting in increased socioeconomic injustice and greater cultural marginalization. A more participatory approach, rather than top-down policies that have typified most efforts to integrate local populations into development efforts, may provide greater opportunities for recognizing local innovativeness and expanding the possibility that others may learn valuable lessons from threatened communities., This book demonstrates powerfully the dynamism of indigenous knowledge and of communities' capacities for adaptation.
Table of Content
Prelims (Contents, Tables, About the Editors)1. Introduction - Climate Change and Threatened CommunitiesA. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, and David W. Brokensha 2. Climate change and forest conservation: a REDD flag for Central African forest people? Philip Burnham 3. Social vulnerability, climatic variability, and uncertainty in rural Ethiopia: a study of South Wollo and Oromiya Zones of eastern Amhara Region A. Peter Castro 4. Farmers on the frontline: adaptation and change in Malawi Kate Wellard, Daimon Kambewa, and Sieglinde Snapp 5. Risk and abandonment and the meta-narrative of climate change Dan Taylor 6. Mobilizing knowledge to build adaptive capacity: lessons from southern Mozambique J. Shaffer7. Climate change and the future of onion and potato production in West Darfur, Sudan: a case study of Zalingei locality Yassir Hassan Satti and A. Peter Castro 8. Comparing knowledge of and experience with climate change across three glaciated mountain regions K.W. Dunbar, Julie Brugger, Christine Jurt, and Ben Orlove 9. Aapuupayuu (the weather warms up): climate change and the Eeyouch (Cree) of northern Quebec Kreg T. Ettenger 10. 'The one who has changed is the person': observations and explanations of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes Kristine Skarbø, Kristin Vander Molen, Rosa Ramos, and Robert E. Rhoades 11. Good intentions, bad memories, and troubled capital: American Indian knowledge and action in renewable energy projects Raymond I. Orr and David B. Anderson 12. Reclaiming the past to respond to climate change: Mayan farmers and ancient agricultural techniques in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico Betty Bernice Faust, Armando Anaya Hernández, and Helga Geovannini Acuña 13. Can we learn from the past? policy history and climate change in Bangladesh David Lewis 14. Local perceptions and adaptation to climate change: a perspective from Western India Dineshkumar Moghariya 15. Ethno-ecology in the shadow of rain and light of experience: local perceptions of drought and climate change in East Sumba, Indonesia Yancey Orr, Russell Schimmer and Roland Geerken 16. Local knowledge and technology innovation in a changing world: traditional fishing communities in Tam Giang Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam Thanh Vo and Jack Manno 17. Conclusion: some reflections on indigenous knowledge and climate change Dan Taylor, A. Peter Castro, and David W. Brokensha Back Matter (Resources, Notes, Index)
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Developing & Emerging Countries, Globalization, Global Warming & Climate Change
Dewey Decimal
363.73874091724
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Science, Social Science, Political Science
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