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Summary:

"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 makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective"-- [Provided by publisher]

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
• Making sense of climate science : from climate knowledge to decision-making / 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 - Nepal's climate-change cultural world / 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.

Contributors:

Sillitoe, Paul, 1949- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Anthroposcene of weather and climate (New York : Berghahn Books, 2022 — ISBN 9781800732322; LCCN 2021017516)

Subjects:

Climatic changes — Social aspects — Case studies

Weather — Social aspects — Case studies

Climatic changes — Effect of human beings on — Case studies

Weather — Effect of human beings on — Case studies

Climatic changes — Social aspects

Climatic changes

Weather — Social aspects

Weather

Climatic changes — Effect of human beings on

Weather — Effect of human beings on

Genres:

Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

QC903 .A59 2022

ISBNs:

9781800732315 (hardcover)
1800732317 (hardcover)
9781800732322 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021017515

OCLC Numbers:

1249705826