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Changing Climate, Changing Worlds - Local Knowledge and the Challenges of Social and Ecological Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Changing Climate, Changing Worlds - Local Knowledge and the Challenges of Social and Ecological Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Ethnobiology
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This book explores how individuals and communities perceive and
understand climate change using their observations of change in the
world around them. Because processes of climatic change operate at
spatial and temporal scales that differ from those of everyday
practice, the phenomenon can be difficult to understand. However,
flora and fauna, which are important natural and cultural resources
for human communities, do respond to the pressures of environmental
change. Humans, in turn, observe and adapt to those responses, even
when they may not understand their causes. Much of the discussion
about human experiences of our changing climate centers on
disasters and extreme events, but we argue that a focus on the
everyday, on the microexperiences of change, has the advantage of
revealing how people see, feel, and make sense of climate change in
their own lives. The chapters of this book are drawn from Asia,
Europe, Africa, and South and North America. They use ethnographic
inquiry to understand local knowledge and perceptions of climate
change and the social and ecological changes inextricably
intertwined with it. Together, they illustrate the complex process
of coming to know climate change, show some of the many ways that
climate change and our responses to it inflict violence, and point
to promising avenues for moving toward just and authentic
collaborative responses.
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