Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

By: Ms Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780300213577
Related ISBNs:: 9780300198812
Publisher:: Yale University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/13/19
Copyrighted By:: Yale University.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.