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This book considers human social life in an environmental context, and examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health.
List of contents
1. The Physical and Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. The Rise and Role of Social Inequality in the Production of Climate Change 3. Maintaining Inequality: Ideology of Denial and the Creation of Climate Change Uncertainty 4. The Polluting Elite and the Political Economy of Climate Change Denial 5. Anthropological Lens on Climate Change 6. Changing World of the Indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat Peoples 7. Water Vulnerability and Social Equity in Ecuador 8. On the Bottom Rung of a Low Lying Nation: Social Ranking and Climate Change in Bangladesh 9. Haiti: A Legacy of Colonialism, a Future of Climate Change 10. Climate Change, Desertification, and Food Insecurity in Mali 11. The Consequential Intersection of Social Inequality and Climate Change: Health, Coping, and Community Organizing
About the author
Merrill Singer is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Summary
This book considers human social life in an environmental context, and examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health.
