The Anthropology of Climate Change An Integrated Critical Perspective

• Main Authors: Baer, Hans A., Singer, Merrill
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2018; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 2
• Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
• Subjects: Alps; Andes; Anthropocene; Anthropology; Biodiversity; Climate Change; Climatic changes; Conservation; eco-socialist; Environmental Anthropology; Environmental economics; Environmental Geography; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Environmental Sociology; Environmental Studies; Himalayas; Human beings; Human beings > Effect of climate on; Literature; Margaret Mead; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; transport; Viliui Sakha; Climate Turmoil; Grand Bayou; Holocene Climate Optimum; Critical Anthropology; EU Emission Trading Scheme; North Sea Basin; Medieval Warm Period; Diminished Water Supply; Cultural Interpretive Perspective; Climate Justice; Coal Seam Gas Mining; Pluralea Interaction; Climate Justice Movement; Younger Dryas; Van De Noort; Anvil Hill; Climate Governance; Lake Macquarie; Climate Movement; Climate Change Mitigation Strategies; Climate Change; Energy Source; Homo Erectus; Climate Action Groups
• ISBN: 9781138574823; 1138574821; 1138574848; 9781138574847
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351273121

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change. This second edition is fully updated to include the most recent literature published since the first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics, including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological Association’s Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate change. Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological interactions.