04576oam 2200709I 450 991046221620332120200520144314.00-415-52037-11-283-70984-80-203-10971-61-136-27179-110.4324/9780203109717 (CKB)2670000000269263(EBL)1046865(OCoLC)817887578(SSID)ssj0000759691(PQKBManifestationID)11966289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759691(PQKBWorkID)10800817(PQKB)10462388(MiAaPQ)EBC1046865(Au-PeEL)EBL1046865(CaPaEBR)ebr10617535(CaONFJC)MIL402234(OCoLC)817540239(EXLCZ)99267000000026926320180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLocal climate change and society /edited by M.A. Mohamed SalihLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (249 p.)Routledge advances in climate change researchRoutledge advances in climate change researchDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-62715-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 societies6 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"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"--Provided by publisher.Routledge Advances in Climate Change ResearchGreenhouse gas mitigationGovernment policyClimate change mitigationGovernment policyCommunity developmentHuman beingsClimatic factorsElectronic books.Greenhouse gas mitigationGovernment policy.Climate change mitigationGovernment policy.Community development.Human beingsClimatic factors.363.738/74561Salih Mohamed Abdel Rahim M(Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed)253771MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462216203321Local climate change and society2133338UNINA