Merrill Singer

Climate Change and Social Inequality

The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers human social life in an environmental context, and examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781138102910
• ISBN-10: 1138102911
• Artikelnr.: 53114544

Autorenporträt

Merrill Singer is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Physical and Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. The Rise and
Role of Social Inequality in the Production of Climate Change 3.
Maintaining Inequality: Ideology of Denial and the Creation of Climate
Change Uncertainty 4. The Polluting Elite and the Political Economy of
Climate Change Denial 5. Anthropological Lens on Climate Change 6. Changing
World of the Indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat Peoples 7. Water
Vulnerability and Social Equity in Ecuador 8. On the Bottom Rung of a Low
Lying Nation: Social Ranking and Climate Change in Bangladesh 9. Haiti: A
Legacy of Colonialism, a Future of Climate Change 10. Climate Change,
Desertification, and Food Insecurity in Mali 11. The Consequential
Intersection of Social Inequality and Climate Change: Health, Coping, and
Community Organizing