Cooling Down

Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Mendes, Paulo; Hoffman, Susanna; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Berghahn Books

02/2022

402

Dura

Inglês

9781800731899

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down

Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Paulo Mendes



Part I: Ways of Knowing



Chapter 1. Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change

Michael Schnegg



Chapter 2. How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas

Alex Aisher



Chapter 3. Who is Perturbed by Perturbations? Marine Scientists' and Polynesian Fishers' Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak

Matthew Lauer, Terava Atger, Sally J. Holbrook, Andrew Rassweiler, Russell J. Schmitt, and Jean Wencelius



Chapter 4. Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belem (PA): Environmental Memories and Urban Flood

Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araujo Soares



Part II: Situations and Decisions



Chapter 5. Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations

Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan



Chapter 6. Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Over-simplification of Local Responses

Brian Orland, Meredith Welch-Devine, and Micah Taylor



Chapter 7. 'The Times They Are a-Changin' but 'The Song Remains The Same': Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand

Paul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic



Chapter 8. Climate Change and East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary Tales

A. Peter Castro



Chapter 9. "Our Existence is Literally Melting Away": Narrative and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria

Herta Nobauer



Part III: Politics, Policies, and Contestation



Chapter 10. Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley

Kristoffer Albris



Chapter 11. Climate Resilience Through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United States

Julie Maldonado and Beth Rose Middleton



Chapter 12. The Return of What Has Not Been Gone: A View of Animal Presence in Future Natures

Guilherme Jose da Silva e Sa



Chapter 13. Emitting Inequity: The Socio-Political Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico

Roberto E. Barrios and Amanda Leppert



Chapter 14. Disaster and Climate Change

Susanna M. Hoffman



Afterword: Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System

Hans A. Baer



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Environmental Studies (General), Political and Economic Anthropology, Urban Studies