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Zusatztext People and Climate Change illuminates causes of climate-related crises, helping to locate responsibility and identify appropriate response. It shows that climate change is generated and unfolds in a socially unequal world where those who suffer most contributed least. The reader will learn about the integral link between the causes of disaster and responsibility. ... The book is analytically rigorous and provides numerous indications for policy and practice in our changing world. It is essential reading in the Anthropocene. Informationen zum Autor Lisa Reyes Mason, PhD, MSW, is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee.Jonathan Rigg, PhD, is Chair of Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge. Through a globally diverse set of community-based examples, People and Climate Change questions why some groups are more vulnerable to the social and economic consequences of climate change than others, and what can be done about it through more participatory policymaking and interventions. Zusammenfassung Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide. Too often, those who have contributed least to climate change are the most likely to suffer from its negative consequences and are often excluded from the policy discussions and decisions that affect their lives. People and Climate Change pays particular attention to the social dimensions of climate change. It closely examines people's lived experience, climate-related injustice and inequity, why some groups are more vulnerable than others, and what can be done about it-especially through greater community inclusion in policy change. The book offers a diverse range of rich, community-based examples from across the "Global North" and "Global South" (e.g., sacrificial flood zones in urban Argentina, forced relocation of United Houma tribal members in the United States, gendered water insecurities in Bangladesh and Australia) while posing social and political questions about climate change (e.g., what can be done about the unequal consequences of climate change by questioning and transforming social institutions and arrangements?). It serves as an essential resource for practitioners, policymakers, and undergraduate-/graduate-level educators of courses in environmental studies, social work, urban studies, planning, geography, sociology, and other disciplines that address matters of climate and environmental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword By Michael Sherraden Chapter 1. Climate Change, Social Justice: Making the Case for Community Inclusion By Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg Part I. Weather Chapter 2. Pathways to Climate Justice in a Desert Metropolis By Sharon Harlan, Paul Chakalian, Juan Declet-Barreto, David M. Hondula, and G. Darrel Jenerette Chapter 3. Water Insecurity in Disaster and Climate Change Contexts: A Feminist Political Ecology View By Bernadette P. Resurrección Chapter 4. Older People and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Resilience to Extreme Weather in England By Katie Oven, Jonathan Wistow, and Sarah Curtis Part II. Land Chapter 5. Normalizing Discourses: Urban Flooding and Blaming the Victim in Modern Santa Fe, Argentina By April Colette Chapter 6. Reclaiming Land: Adaptation Activities and Global Environmental Change Challenges within Indigenous Communities By Shanondora Billiot and Jessica Parfait Chapter 7. Urban Development, Vulnerabilities, and Disasters in Indonesia's Coastal Land Reclamations: Does Social Justice Matter? By Rita Padawangi Part III. Comparisons Chapter 8. Resilience to Climate Change in Uganda: Policy Implications for Two Marginalized Societies<...
