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Climate Cultures : Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
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- Creator
- edited by Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- viii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300198812, 0300213573, 0300198817, 9780300213577
- OCLC
- ocn910553653, ocn894310335
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Text in English.
- Introduction / Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove -- Part I: Historicizing climate change. Historic decentering of the modern discourse of climate change : the long view from the Vedic sages to Montesquieu / Michael R. Dove ; How long-standing debates have shaped recent climate change discourses / Ben Orlove, Heather Lazrus, Grete K. Hovelsrud, and Alessandra Giannini ; From conservation and development to climate change : anthropological engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam / Pamela McElwee -- Part II: Knowing climate change. Glacial dramas : typos, projections, and peer review in the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Jessica O'Reilly ; Scale and agency : climate change and the future of Egypt's water / Jessica Barnes ; Satellite imagery and community perceptions of climate change impacts and landscape change / Karina Yager ; Challenges in integrating the climate and social sciences for studies of climate change impacts and adaptation / Frances C. Moore, Justin S. Mankin, and Austin Becker -- Part III: Imagining climate change. Imagining forest futures and climate change : the Mexican state as insurance broker and storyteller / Andrew S. Mathews ; Digging deeper into the why : cultural dimensions of climate change skepticism among scientists / Myanna Lahsen ; The uniqueness of the everyday : herders and invasive species in India / Rajindra K. Puri ; Climate shock and awe : can there be an "ethno-science" of deep-time Mande palaeoclimate memory? / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Afterword: The many uses of climate change / Mike Hulme