Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and
indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests
concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in
precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic
patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes,
accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization.
This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change
mitigation and adaptation must take into account the knowledge and
capacity of rural people, and engage them as active participants in
the design and governance of interventions, not as a matter of
courtesy, but because it is their right. Furthermore, inclusion of
local communities in genuine partnership will likely make climate
change adaptation and mitigation efforts more effective. "Climate
Change and Threatened Communities" presents 15 case studies and a
variety of approaches to document the capacities and constraints to
be encountered among communities facing changing climates in
Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan,
United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. It explores human
interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra to
equatorial rain forest, from oceanic lagoons to inland mountains.
Chapters investigate issues such as social vulnerability to
climatic uncertainty, shifts in livelihood practices, local
perceptions of climatic change, and the potential and limitations
of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.
Authors consider the potential of archaeology, phenomenology,
controlled comparisons, historical analysis, gender analysis and
other analytical approaches to shed light on the experiences of
communities and their members. This book is important reading for
policy makers, academics, and students in the fields of climate
change adaptation, anthropology and development studies, as well as
more general readers.
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