Cooling Down - Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming.

About the author

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Foundation. His recent books include Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Pluto Press, 2016), and the co-edited, with Astrid Stensrud, Climate, Capitalism and Communities (Pluto Press, 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Eriksen Hoffman
• Assisted by: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Editor), Eriksen Thomas Hylland (Editor), Susanna Hoffman (Editor), Hoffman Susanna (Editor), Paulo Mendes (Editor), Mendes Paulo (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781800731899
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-189-9
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social and cultural anthropology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, sdg_13