Environmental and climate change in South and Southeast Asia: how are local cultures coping?

Preliminary Material -- Introduction – The Dynamics of Climate and the Dynamics of Culture /Barbara Schuler -- 1 Cosmos, Commodity, and Care: Three Layers in Hindu Environmental Awareness /Albertina Nugteren -- 2 Ideas and Images of Nature in Thai Buddhism: Continuity and Change /Martin Seeger -- 3 Shifting Notions of Nature and Environmentalism in Indonesian Islam /Monika Arnez -- 4 Irrigation in South Thailand as a Coping Strategy against Climate Change: Past and Present /Janice Stargardt -- 5 The Emergence of the Cryoscape: Contested Narratives of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics and Climate Change /Marcus Nüsser and Ravi Baghel -- 6 A Shift in India's Domestic and International Climate Policy? /Joachim Betz -- 7 New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi /Somnath Batabyal -- 8 Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change /Susan M. Darlington -- 9 Mitigating Climate Change: An Additional Role for Technology and Policy in India as well as International Arenas /Rüdiger Haum -- 10 Institutional Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia: The Role of ASEAN /Dennis Eucker -- Bibliography /Barbara Schuler -- Index /Barbara Schuler.

Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on how local cultures cope with climate changes and environmental crises. The focus is on Hindu India, Islamic Indonesia, Buddhist Thailand, and Himalayan glaciers