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. 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-- |c Provided By Publisher. Environmental Pluralism: Knowing The Namibian Weather In Times Of Climate Change -- Michael Schnegg -- How A Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change In The Eastern Himalayas -- Alexander Aisher Who Is Perturbed By Ecological 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 Wence´lius -- Urban Transformations In The Hydric Landscapes Of Bele´m, Brazil: Environmental Memories And Urban Floods -- Pedro Paulo De Miranda Arau´jo Soares -- Climate Change And Mitigation In Bangladesh: Vulnerability In Urban Locations -- Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, And Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan -- Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Oversimplification Of Local Responses -- Brian Orland, Meredith Welch-devine, And Micah Taylor -- 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 -- Climate Change And East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary Tales -- A. Peter Castro -- Our Existence Is Literally Melting Away: Narrating And Fighting Climate Change In A Glacier Ski Resort In Austria -- Herta No¨bauer Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation As Defiant Acceptance In The Elbe River Valley -- Kristoffer Albris -- Climate Resilience Through Equity And Justice: Holistic Leadership By Tribal Nations And Indigenous Communities In The Southwestern United States -- Julie Maldonado And Beth Rose Middleton -- The Return To What Has Never Been: A View On The Animal Presence In Future Natures -- Guilherme Jose´ Da Silva E Sa´ -- Emitting Inequity: The Sociopolitical Life Of Anthropogenic Climate Change In Oaxaca, Mexico -- Amanda Leppert And Roberto E. Barrios Disaster And Climate Change -- Susanna M. Hoffman. Edited By Susanna M. Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, And Paulo Mendes. Funded By Knowledge Unlatched