Practical Action Publishing
Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
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9781853397257
ISBN13:
9781853397257
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$113.72
Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
$113.72
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. 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.This book documents the capacities and constraints to be encountered among communities facing changing climates. It explores human interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra to equatorial rain forest, from oceanic lagoons to inland mountains. It is important reading for policy makers and academics in climate change adaptation, anthropology and development studies.
| Author: A. Peter Castro |
| Publisher: Practical Action Publishing |
| Publication Date: Apr 15, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 224 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1853397253 |
| ISBN-13: 9781853397257 |
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