Climate cultures : anthropological perspectives on climate change /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies.
Subject:	Climatic changes. Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies. Climatic changes. Human ecology. Electronic books. Cross-cultural studies.
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

Table of 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.

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