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The anthroposcene of weather and climate : ethnographic contributions to the climate change debate /

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"While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sillitoe, Paul (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Weather > Effect of human beings on.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : introducing the anthroposcene of weather and climate / Paul Sillitoe
  • There's something in the air, but what? : on Amazon people's perception of atmospheric phenomena / Dan Rosengren
  • Climate change, weather and perception : fishing in eastern Patagonia / Francesca Marin
  • Indigenous responses to climate change in extreme environments : the cases of the Q'eros (Peruvian Andes) and the Gwich'in (Alaska) / Nastassja Martin and Geremia Cometti
  • Fornicating frogs : local knowledge of climate change in Bangladesh? / Paul Sillitoe and Mahbub Alam
  • Weather, agency and values at work in a glacier ski resort in Austria / Herta Nöbauer
  • The moral climate of melting glaciers : Andean claims for justice at the Paris Climate Change Summit / Noah Walker-Crawford
  • From climate knowledge to decision making user interface : making sense of climate science / Maria Ines Carabajal and Cecilia Hidalgo
  • Practising anthropology by providing climate services for farmers : the case of science field shops in Indonesia / Yunita T. Winarto
  • Governmental climate change Agencies and policies in Nepal / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
  • Down to air : Palestinian memories and practices of weather relatedness / Mauro Van Aken
  • Imagining nations and producing climate change knowledge in Brazil / André S. Bailão
  • Embanking the sundarbans : the obfuscating discourse of climate change / Camelia Dewan
  • Afterword / David Shankland.