Local climate change and society / / edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462216203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-415-52037-1; 1-283-70984-8; 0-203-10971-6; 1-136-27179-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in climate change research
• Altri autori (Persone): SalihMohamed Abdel Rahim M (Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed)
• Disciplina: 363.738/74561
• Soggetti: Greenhouse gas mitigation - Government policy; Climate change mitigation - Government policy; Community development; Human beings - Climatic factors; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Local Climate Change and Society; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Using local knowledge to shrink the individual carbon footprint; 2 What local climate change plans can teach us about city power; 3 The role of local government units in mainstreaming climate-change adaptation; 4 Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses in Xinjiang, China; 5 Local environmental initiatives in Chinese and Dutch societies; 6 Impacts and responses to climate change at the micro-spatial scale in Malawi, Botswana and Kenya7 Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+); 8 Pulp mills and mining Trajectories of non-traditional actors' limits of influence, Argentina; 9 Local campaigns against Shell or transnational campaigns against climate change?; 10 On economy, entropy and local climate change; Conclusion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book aims at creating contact points between the current ; academic and policy debate's obsession with global-centered to the most neglected local-centered concerns with climate change. Although climate change impacts on the environmental life support system are global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences are social and therefore local. Therefore this book gives special attention to the significance of local communities and local governments' formal and informal adaptation and mitigation responses. Local Climate Change and Society articulates how climate change alters society-environment relationships, contributing to structural changes in local communities and societies relationship to environmental resources and economic opportunities essential for eking a living and leading a healthy life. The book consists of 12 Chapters and case studies from across the globe, written by academics, researchers and policy makers at the cutting edge of climate change studies. The main sub- themes covered by this book include: of the book are as follows: conceptualizing local climate change and society relations; analyzing and explaining local government response to local climate change, particularly adaptation/mitigation; Micro-climate policies and responses; and climate social movements and activism in South-North perspectives"--