Editor(s): Castro, Professor A. Peter; Taylor, Dan; Brokensha, Prof. David W. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490. . 2012. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1853397253
ISBN 13: 9781853397257
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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Alfonso Peter Castro teaches at Syracuse University.

Dan Taylor is with Find Your Feet, UK.

David W. Brokensha is at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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