Hans A Baer, Merrill Singer

The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Integrated Critical Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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 the policy statements and actions of Donald Trump on climate change, the work of psychologists, historians, philosophers, and cultural studies academics and the recent debates around the concept of the Anthropocene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781138574823
• ISBN-10: 1138574821
• Artikelnr.: 52380414

Autorenporträt

Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. Merrill Singer is Professor at the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of
human action, environmental impact, and mounting vulnerability 2. The
emergence and maturation of the anthropology of climate change 3. The
archaeology of climate change 4. Theoretical perspectives in the
anthropology of climate change 5. Case studies in the anthropology of
climate change 6. Applications of anthropological research on climate
change 7. What are other social scientists saying about climate change 8.
Conclusion: toward a critical integrated social science of climate change