05049oam 2200649I 450 991078789580332120170821191850.01-317-75361-51-317-75362-31-315-79746-110.4324/9781315797465 (CKB)2670000000529430(EBL)1644449(SSID)ssj0001130939(PQKBManifestationID)12383546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130939(PQKBWorkID)11110733(PQKB)10505647(OCoLC)872654422(MiAaPQ)EBC1644449(OCoLC)897457804(EXLCZ)99267000000052943020180706d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving with environmental change waterworlds /edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Cecilie RubowNew York :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-74667-1 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PORTRAITS; PART ONE WATER; Introduction; Narwhals and Navigators on the Arctic Sea; Ephemeral Tsunamis, Emotional Waves, and Enduring Islands; Seawater to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru; Bursting Bodies of Water; When It Rains and the River Grows; The Elusive Pleasure of Rain in the Sahel; Dams: Management Versus Luck; Water as Power and Destroyer; New Opportunities Turning into Disaster; Coastal Gardens and Their Magic; The Sprawled Way of DetergentsDroughts: Complex Social PhenomenaWater Quantity Vs Water Quality; Fixed and Fluid Waters: Mirroring the Arctic and the Pacific; PART TWO TECHNOLOGY; Introduction; Sea Level and Coastal Protection; Urbanizing Water in a Context of Scarcity; A Job Machine Powered by Water; Life in the Shadow of a Water Tower; Waste and Water: Connected and Mixed; Inverted Watering Strategies in Senegal; Cobs as Technological Solutions; The Imagined Water Pump; Unpredictable Side Effects of New Technologies; Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers; Dry Technologies and Community Bureaucracies; A Life Jacket StoryUnpacking the Dog SledgeWater Technologies: Mirroring Great Expectations in Greenland and Ghana; PART THREE LANDSCAPE; Introduction; Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source; Knowing Landscapes of Water in Kiribati; Borders at Sea; Making Urban Landscapes: People, Water, Materials; Dreams, Water and the Remodelling of Place; Strategic Thinking: Changeable Usages of the Nigerian Landscape; Landscapes of Droughts and Floods on the Desert Margins; A Landscape of Ice; Walking Along Water; Old Water, Gardens and Prophetic Powers in the SahelCan You See Climate Change in a Changing Environment?Mental Topographies; Nomadic Landscapes and Ephemeral Resources; Icons of Climate Change: Mirroring the Sahel and the Andes; PART FOUR TIME; Introduction; Glacial Time; Seasons, Timings, and the Rhythms of Life; Flexible Trajectories: Nomadic Pastoral Mobility Patterns; Still Life on the Shore; Appraising Change: A Question of Baseline; Litres Per Second: Measuring the Water Flow; New Scenarios and Unstable Temporalities; Facing Reality: Managing/Imagining the Time Left on an Atoll; Anticipating Futures and the Rhythms of WaterSlow Versus Fast Changes in Sahelian Land Use SystemsThree Calendars and the Test of Time in Northern Sahel; 'Packages' with Disparate Time Horizons; Urban Talks about Climate and Weather; Times of Climate Change in Religion and Ethics: Mirroring the Andes and the Pacific; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FURTHER READINGClimate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the SoutheasWaterEnvironmental aspectsClimatic changesGlobal environmental changeWaterEnvironmental aspects.Climatic changes.Global environmental change.333.91BUS068000BUS072000BUS099000bisacshHastrup Kirsten293616Rubow Cecilie1966-1567605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787895803321Living with environmental change3839098UNINA