This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda, West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world.
This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda, West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sophia Perdikaris is Director of Global Integrative Studies (the home of Anthropology, Geography, and Global Studies) and Happold Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her area is environmental archaeology with a specialty in animal bones from archaeological sites. She is interested in people-environment interactions through time and the response of both to big climatic events. Rebecca Boger is Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and has a background in geospatial technologies, environmental science, and science education. Her research in Barbuda examines socio-ecological resilience, sustainability, environmental/climate change modeling, and community-based mapping.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. A long-term perspective of climate change in the Caribbean and its impacts on the island of Barbuda 2. Water use and availability on Barbuda from the colonial times to the present: An intersection of natural and social systems 3. Developing agency and resilience in the face of climate change: Ways of knowing, feeling, and practicing through art and science 4. Fallow deer: The unprotected biocultural heritage of Barbuda 5. From the far ground to the near ground: Barbuda's shifting agricultural practices 6. Written with lightning: Filming Barbuda before the storm 7. Disaster capitalism: Who has a right to control their future?
Introduction 1. A long-term perspective of climate change in the Caribbean and its impacts on the island of Barbuda 2. Water use and availability on Barbuda from the colonial times to the present: An intersection of natural and social systems 3. Developing agency and resilience in the face of climate change: Ways of knowing, feeling, and practicing through art and science 4. Fallow deer: The unprotected biocultural heritage of Barbuda 5. From the far ground to the near ground: Barbuda's shifting agricultural practices 6. Written with lightning: Filming Barbuda before the storm 7. Disaster capitalism: Who has a right to control their future?
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