Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

ISBN 10: 1853397350 / ISBN 13: 9781853397356

Published by Practical Action Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853397350
• ISBN 13: 9781853397356
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.