Climate cultures : anthropological perspectives on climate change /

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Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675868
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Other authors / contributors:Barnes, Jessica, 1978- editor.
Dove, Michael, 1949- editor.
ISBN:9780300213577
0300213573
9780300198812
0300198817
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 4, 2015).
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."--
Other form:Print version: Climate Cultures. Yale Univ Pr 2015 9780300198812