Local Climate Change and Society

Mohamed A. Salih is Professor of the Politics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, Netherlands.

• Introduction Mohamed A. Salih 1. Economy, Entropy and Local Climate Change Jairo Roldán 2. Conceptualizing Local Climate Change and Society Mohamed A. Salih 3. Micro Level Climate Change Impacts and Response in Malawi, Botswana and Kenya Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and Joseph E. Mbaiwa 4. Local Climate Change and Water Distribution in Xinjiang, China Max Spoor, Jiang Pingan and Mural Arsel 5. Using Local Knowledge to Shrink the Individual Carbon Footprint Katrina Fischer-Kuh 6. Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Gendered Resource Systems and Livelihood Diversification Leena Akatama and Irmeli Mustalahti 7. The Role of Local Government Units in Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Albay, Philippines Rodel Lasco, RJ Delfino1, M Rangasa and FB Pulhin 8. Local environmental initiatives in Chinese and Dutch Cities Meine Pieter van Dijk 9. Local Campaigns against Shell or Transnational Campaigns Against Climate Change? From the Niger Delta in Nigeria to Rossport in Ireland Timothy Doyle and Andy Lockhart 10. Pulp mills and Mining: Trajectories of non-traditional actors limits of influence, Argentina María del Pilar Bueno Conclusions Mohamed A. Salih

"Can the dimensions of different scale levels from a socio-cultural, an economic-administrative and an eco-system perspective at all be compared? The different case studies in Local Climate Change and Society reflect these problems as there is not such a thing as a binary division of the global and the local scale, but in our world today, there are indeed many different scale levels according to the dimensions and the aspects involved". - Hans (J.A.) van Ginkel, former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo.