| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
"Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science, politics, and belief, the book reveals nuanced ways of understanding the relationships between society and climate, science and the state, certainty and uncertainty, global and local that are manifested in climate change debates. The contributors address three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to the present; how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups; and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 4, 2015) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes
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Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Climatic changes
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Human ecology
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barnes, Jessica, 1978- editor.
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Dove, Michael, 1949- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780300213577 |
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0300213573 |
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