Local Climate Change and Society (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Salih, M. A. Mohamed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society's relationship with the environment and the resulting structural changes in local communities to adapt to and mitigate climate change. The book analyses the principles, practices and local responses to micro-level climate policies and interrogates the increasing role of local climate social movements induced by transnational corporations' activities both above and below the equator.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136271786
• Artikelnr.: 38261044

Autorenporträt

Mohamed A. Salih is Professor of the Politics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Mohamed A. Salih 1. Economy, Entropy and Local Climate Change
Jairo Roldán 2. Conceptualizing Local Climate Change and Society Mohamed A.
Salih 3. Micro Level Climate Change Impacts and Response in Malawi,
Botswana and Kenya Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and
Joseph E. Mbaiwa 4. Local Climate Change and Water Distribution in
Xinjiang, China Max Spoor, Jiang Pingan and Mural Arsel 5. Using Local
Knowledge to Shrink the Individual Carbon Footprint Katrina Fischer-Kuh 6.
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Gendered
Resource Systems and Livelihood Diversification Leena Akatama and Irmeli
Mustalahti 7. The Role of Local Government Units in Mainstreaming Climate
Change Adaptation: The Case of Albay, Philippines Rodel Lasco, RJ Delfino1,
M Rangasa and FB Pulhin 8. Local environmental initiatives in Chinese and
Dutch Cities Meine Pieter van Dijk 9. Local Campaigns against Shell or
Transnational Campaigns Against Climate Change? From the Niger Delta in
Nigeria to Rossport in Ireland Timothy Doyle and Andy Lockhart 10. Pulp
mills and Mining: Trajectories of non-traditional actors limits of
influence, Argentina María del Pilar Bueno Conclusions Mohamed A. Salih