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Title Cultural dynamics of climate change and the environment in Northern America / edited by Bernd Sommer
Published Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Climate and culture ; 3
Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
Contents 880-01 Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America / Bernd Sommer -- The "American Way of Life" and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment / Roland Benedikter, Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd -- From Conservationists to Environmentalists : The American Environmental Movement / Angela Mertig -- The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy / Frederic Hanusch -- North American Climate History / Samuel White, Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker -- Hurricanes in New Orleans : Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718-1794 / Eleonora Rohland -- The Landscapes of Man : Ecological and Social Change before Hurricane Katrina / Demetrius Eudell -- Science (and Policy) Friction : How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Michael K. Goodman -- "Save Ga$. Ride this Bus" : Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America / Jurgen Heinrichs -- Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast : A Practice Theoretical Analysis / Karin Schurmann -- A New Clayoquot? : Examining the Convergence of First Nation and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver's Anti-Pipeline Protests / Omer Aijazi and Martin David -- Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland / Naotaka Hayashi -- Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Example from the East Coast of the US / Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso -- "Back to the Future" : Imagining Climate Change Futures in U S American Literature / Antonia Mehnert
880-01/(Q Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paoliѕѕођ́ёMartinez and PaolissoChapter 13; "Back to the Future": Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature; Antonia Mehnert; Bibliography; Index
Summary In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society-nature interactions in - culturally as well as ecologically - one of the most diverse regions of the world
Analysis The environment
Social impact of environmental issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Global warming -- Social aspects -- North America
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- North America
Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
Climate and civilization.
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY -- North America.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Climate and civilization
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Global warming -- Social aspects
Human beings -- Effect of climate on
Gesellschaft
Klimaänderung
Massenmedien
Umwelt
North America
Nordamerika
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Sommer, Bernd, editor.
LC no. 2015020977
ISBN 9789004300712
9004300716