Cultural dynamics of climate change and the environment in Northern America
Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world’s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. In...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts :
Brill
2015
2015. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
Volume 3. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655593906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America / Bernd Sommer
- 1 The “American Way of Life” and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment / Roland Benedikter , Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd
- 2 From Conservationists to Environmentalists: The American Environmental Movement / Angela G. Mertig
- 3 The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy / Frederic Hanusch
- 4 North American Climate History / Samuel White , Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker
- 5 Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718–1794 / Eleonora Rohland
- 6 The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change before Hurricane Katrina / Demetrius L. Eudell
- 7 Science (and Policy) Friction: How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Michael K. Goodman
- 8 “Save Ga. Ride this Bus”: Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America / Jürgen Heinrichs
- 9 Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast: A Practice Theoretical Analysis / Karin Schürmann
- 10 A New Clayoquot? Examining the Convergence of First Nations and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver’s Anti-Pipeline Protests / Omer Aijazi and Martin David
- 11 Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland / Naotaka Hayashi
- 12 Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US / Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso
- 13 “Back to the Future”: Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature / Antonia Mehnert
- Bibliography / Bernd Sommer
- Index / Bernd Sommer.
