People and Climate Change

Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Social Justice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-05-30
Mått157 x 239 x 22 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190886455

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Foreword By Michael SherradenChapter 1. Climate Change, Social Justice: Making the Case for Community Inclusion By Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan RiggPart 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 JeneretteChapter 3. Water Insecurity in Disaster and Climate Change Contexts: A Feminist Political Ecology View By Bernadette P. ResurrecciónChapter 4. Older People and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Resilience to Extreme Weather in England By Katie Oven, Jonathan Wistow, and Sarah CurtisPart II. LandChapter 5. Normalizing Discourses: Urban Flooding and Blaming the Victim in Modern Santa Fe, Argentina By April ColetteChapter 6. Reclaiming Land: Adaptation Activities and Global Environmental Change Challenges within Indigenous Communities By Shanondora Billiot and Jessica ParfaitChapter 7. Urban Development, Vulnerabilities, and Disasters in Indonesia's Coastal Land Reclamations: Does Social Justice Matter? By Rita PadawangiPart 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 NabaasaChapter 9. Gender, Politics, and Water in Australia and Bangladesh By Margaret AlstonChapter 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 RiggIndex

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.