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Climate Change and Threatened Communities
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Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
By
Dan Taylor (Edited by), David W. Brokensha (Edited by), A. Peter Castro (Edited by)
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Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 224 pages | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 15 April 2012 |
Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation and adaptation must take into account the knowledge and capacity of rural people, and engage them as active participants in the design and governance of interventions, not as a matter of courtesy, but because it is their right. This book documents 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. It explores human interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra to equatorial rain forest, from oceanic lagoons to inland mountains. It is important reading for policy makers and academics in climate change adaptation, anthropology and development studies. |
Table of ContentsPrelims (Tables, Boxes); 1. Introduction; A. 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. Shaffer; 7. 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 Skarbo, 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 Hernandez, and Helga Geovannini Acuna; 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 Resources A. Peter Castro; Back Matter (Index) About the AuthorProfessor Castro is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA. Dan Taylor is the Director of the British NGO Find Your Feet, and Tutor in International Development at the Open University, UK. David W. Brokensha is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Prizes'Climate Change and Threatened Communities is a timely wake-up call and reminder of the local-level practical, theoretical and ethical issues raised by climate change. Scholarly and accessible, it illuminates the rights, interests, needs, and capacities of the many vulnerable and marginalized communities threatened by climate change. For all concerned with how communities can adapt to the mounting stresses, shocks, and uncertainties of climate change, Climate Change and Threatened Communities will be a rich source of insight.' Professor Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 'This unique and significant book has global importance.' Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology 'It is not only an up-to-date contribution to the current debate on global climate change, but also a fantastic handbook for students.' L. Jan Slikkerveer, Professor, Faculty of Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands Reviews"This book demonstrates powerfully the dynamism of indigenous knowledge and of communities' capacities for adaptation."
| Publisher: | Practical Action Publishing | | ISBN: | 1853397350 |
| EAN: | 9781853397356 | | Dimensions: | 23.0 x 15.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.39 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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