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Overview"Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide. Too often, those who have contributed least to climate change are the most likely to suffer from its negative consequences and are often excluded from the policy discussions and decisions that affect their lives. People and Climate Change pays particular attention to the social dimensions of climate change. It closely examines people's lived experience, climate-related injustice and inequity, why some groups are more vulnerable than others, and what can be done about it-especially through greater community inclusion in policy change. The book offers a diverse range of rich, community-based examples from across the ""Global North"" and ""Global South"" (e.g., sacrificial flood zones in urban Argentina, forced relocation of United Houma tribal members in the United States, gendered water insecurities in Bangladesh and Australia) while posing social and political questions about climate change (e.g., what can be done about the unequal consequences of climate change by questioning and transforming social institutions and arrangements?). It serves as an essential resource for practitioners, policymakers, and undergraduate-/graduate-level educators of courses in environmental studies, social work, urban studies, planning, geography, sociology, and other disciplines that address matters of climate and environmental change." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa Reyes Mason (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, College of Social Work, The University of Tennessee) , Jonathan Rigg (Professor, Professor, School of Geography, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780190886455ISBN 10: 0190886455 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 May 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword By Michael Sherraden Chapter 1. Climate Change, Social Justice: Making the Case for Community Inclusion By Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg Part I. Weather Chapter 2. Pathways to Climate Justice in a Desert Metropolis By Sharon Harlan, Paul Chakalian, Juan Declet-Barreto, David M. Hondula, and G. Darrel Jenerette Chapter 3. Water Insecurity in Disaster and Climate Change Contexts: A Feminist Political Ecology View By Bernadette P. Resurrección Chapter 4. Older People and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Resilience to Extreme Weather in England By Katie Oven, Jonathan Wistow, and Sarah Curtis Part II. Land Chapter 5. Normalizing Discourses: Urban Flooding and Blaming the Victim in Modern Santa Fe, Argentina By April Colette Chapter 6. Reclaiming Land: Adaptation Activities and Global Environmental Change Challenges within Indigenous Communities By Shanondora Billiot and Jessica Parfait Chapter 7. Urban Development, Vulnerabilities, and Disasters in Indonesia's Coastal Land Reclamations: Does Social Justice Matter? By Rita Padawangi Part III. Comparisons Chapter 8. Resilience to Climate Change in Uganda: Policy Implications for Two Marginalized Societies By Shuaib Lwasa, James Ford, Lea Berrang Ford, Didacus Namanya, IHACC, Ambrose Buyinza, and Benon Nabaasa Chapter 9. Gender, Politics, and Water in Australia and Bangladesh By Margaret Alston Chapter 10. The Indigenous Climate-Food-Health Nexus: Indigenous Voices, Stories, and Lived Experiences in Canada, Uganda, and Peru By Sherilee L. Harper, Lea Berrang-Ford, Cesar Carcamo, Ashlee Cunsolo, Victoria L. Edge, James Ford, Alejandro Llanos, Shuaib Lwasa, and Didacus B. Namanya Chapter 11. Moving Forward for Community Inclusion and Policy Change By Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg IndexReviewsPeople and Climate Change illuminates causes of climate-related crises, helping to locate responsibility and identify appropriate response. It shows that climate change is generated and unfolds in a socially unequal world where those who suffer most contributed least. The reader will learn about the integral link between the causes of disaster and responsibility. ... The book is analytically rigorous and provides numerous indications for policy and practice in our changing world. It is essential reading in the Anthropocene. * Jesse Ribot, PhD, MS, Professor, School of International Service, American University; 2018-19 Guggenheim Fellow at the NYU Wagner School and CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Program * People and Climate Change lives up to its title. Real people inhabit this book in the richness of their histories and situations. Real climate impacts affect them now, not in future scenarios. People respond, resist, and survive; they are not victims, but agents. The editors do an elegant job giving order to a furious display of complexity and diversity. * Ben Wisner, PhD, Co-author, At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters * The volume examines the global North, the global South, and First Nations. The 11 essays are organized into three sections: Weather, Land, and Comparisons (between vulnerable communities and countries). Each contribution is guided by sixAcarefully crafted questions addressing vulnerability, adaptation, and social justice. The collection's key argument is that the vulnerabilities of communities and countries are either inherited from the past or produced and reproduced by policy decisions, causing an uneven distribution of resources for them to adapt to the changing climate and mitigate its impact. In sum,People and Climate Change is a theoretically dense, empirically rich account of climate change and its varying impacts on communities and countries. Making an invaluable contribution to the literature on disaster studies, this collection will interest students of social work, geography, planning, and environmental studies. -- T. Niazi,, CHOICE The collection's key argument is that the vulnerabilities of communities and countries are either inherited from the past or produced and reproduced by policy decisions, causing an uneven distribution of resources for them to adapt to the changing climate and mitigate its impact. In sum, People and Climate Change is a theoretically dense, empirically rich account of climate change and its varying impacts on communities and countries. Making an invaluable contribution to the literature on disaster studies, this collection will interest students of social work, geography, planning, and environmental studies. -- CHOICE People and Climate Change lives up to its title. Real people inhabit this book in the richness of their histories and situations. Real climate impacts affect them now, not in future scenarios. People respond, resist, and survive; they are not victims, but agents. The editors do an elegant job giving order to a furious display of complexity and diversity. -- Ben Wisner, PhD, Co-author, At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters People and Climate Change illuminates causes of climate-related crises, helping to locate responsibility and identify appropriate response. It shows that climate change is generated and unfolds in a socially unequal world where those who suffer most contributed least. The reader will learn about the integral link between the causes of disaster and responsibility. ... The book is analytically rigorous and provides numerous indications for policy and practice in our changing world. It is essential reading in the Anthropocene. -- Jesse Ribot, PhD, MS, Professor, School of International Service, American University; 2018-19 Guggenheim Fellow at the NYU Wagner School and CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Program Author InformationLisa Reyes Mason, PhD, MSW, is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Jonathan Rigg, PhD, is Chair of Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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