Cooling down local responses to global climate change
"Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn
2022©2022, 2022
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (chiefly color), maps |
| ISBN: | 9781800732988 1800732988 9781800731899 |