Buch(elektronisch)2012

Local Climate Change and Society

In: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

In: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research Ser.

Salih, M. A. Mohamed

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Abstract

Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society's relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate climate change. The book analyzes the principles, practices and local responses to micro-level climate policies and interrogates the increasing role of local governments and local climate social movements induced by transnational corporations' activities both above and below the equator. This book c

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Local climate change and society

In: Routledge advances in climate change research

Salih, Mohamed Abdel Rahim M.

1. Using local knowledge to shrink the individual carbon footprint / Katrina Fischer Kuh -- 2. What local climate change plans can teach us about city power / Katherine A. Trisolini -- 3. The role of local government units in mainstreaming climate-change adaptation : the case of Albay, Philippines / Rodel D. Lasco. [et al.] -- 4. Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses in Xinjiang, China / Max Spoor, Jiang Pingan and Murat Arsel -- 5. Local environmental initiatives in Chinese and Dutch societies / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- 6. Impacts and responses to climate change at the micro-spatial scale in Malawi, Botswana and Kenya / Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and Joseph E. Mbaiwa -- 7. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) : gendered resource systems and livelihood diversification, Tanzania / Leena Akatama and Irmeli Mustalahti -- 8. Pulp mills and mining : trajectories of non-traditional actors' limits of influence, Argentina / Maria del Pilar Bueno -- 9. Local campaigns against Shell or transnational campaigns against climate change? From the Niger Delta, Nigeria to Rossport, Ireland / Timothy Doyle and Andy Lockhart -- 10. On economy, entropy and local climate change / Jairo Roldan.

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