People and Climate Change

Lisa 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.

• Foreword By Michael Sherraden Chapter 1. Climate Change, Social Justice: Making the Case for Community Inclusion By Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg Part I. WeatherChapter 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. LandChapter 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. ComparisonsChapter 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 Index

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 sixcarefully 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 Changeis 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.