Climate change and threatened communities vulnerability, capacity, and action edited by A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, and David W. Brokensha

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Rugby, Warwickshire Practical Action Publishing c2012Description: vi, 216 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781853397356 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903.2.D44 C55 2012
Contents:
Introduction / A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, and David W. Brokensha -- Climate change and forest conservation : a REDD flag for Central African forest people? / Philip Burnham -- Social vulnerability, climatic variability, and uncertainty in rural Ethiopia : a study of South Wollo and Oromiya Zones of eastern Amhara Region / A. Peter Castro -- Farmers on the frontline : adaptation and change in Malawi / Kate Wellard, Daimon Kambewa, and Sieglinde Snapp -- Risk and abandonment and the meta-narrative of climate change / Dan Taylor -- Mobilizing knowledge to build adaptive capacity : lessons from southern Mozambique / L. Jen Shaffer -- Climate change and the future of onion and potato production in West Darfur, Sudan : a case study of Zalingei locality / Yassir Hassan Satti and A. Peter Castro -- Comparing knowledge of and experience with climate change across three glaciated mountain regions / K.W. Dunbar, Julie Brugger, Christine Jurt, and Ben Orlove -- Aapuupayuu (the weather warms up) : climate change and the Eeyouch (Cree) of northern Quebec / Kreg Ettenger -- 'The one who has changed is the person' : observations and explanations of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes / Kristine Skarbà, Kristin Vander Molen, Rosa Ramos, and Robert E. Rhoades -- Good intentions, bad memories, and troubled capital : American Indian knowledge and action in renewable energy projects / Raymond I. Orr and David B. Anderson -- Reclaiming the past to respond to climate change : Mayan farmers and ancient agricultural techniques in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico / Betty Bernice Faust, Armando Anaya-Hernâandez, and Helga Geovannini-Acuäna -- Can we learn from the past? policy history and climate change in Bangladesh / David Lewis -- Local perceptions and adaptation to climate change : a perspective from Western India / Dineshkumar Moghariya -- Ethno-ecology in the shadow of rain and the light of experience : local perceptions of drought and climate change in east Sumba, Indonesia / Yancey Orr, Russell Schimmer, and Roland Geerken -- Local knowledge and technology innovation in a changing world : traditional fishing communities in Tam Giang Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam / Thanh Vo and Jack Manno -- Conclusion : some reflections on indigenous knowledge and climate change / Dan Taylor, A. Peter Castro, and David W. Brokensha -- Resources / A. Peter Castro.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, and David W. Brokensha -- Climate change and forest conservation : a REDD flag for Central African forest people? / Philip Burnham -- Social vulnerability, climatic variability, and uncertainty in rural Ethiopia : a study of South Wollo and Oromiya Zones of eastern Amhara Region / A. Peter Castro -- Farmers on the frontline : adaptation and change in Malawi / Kate Wellard, Daimon Kambewa, and Sieglinde Snapp -- Risk and abandonment and the meta-narrative of climate change / Dan Taylor -- Mobilizing knowledge to build adaptive capacity : lessons from southern Mozambique / L. Jen Shaffer -- Climate change and the future of onion and potato production in West Darfur, Sudan : a case study of Zalingei locality / Yassir Hassan Satti and A. Peter Castro -- Comparing knowledge of and experience with climate change across three glaciated mountain regions / K.W. Dunbar, Julie Brugger, Christine Jurt, and Ben Orlove -- Aapuupayuu (the weather warms up) : climate change and the Eeyouch (Cree) of northern Quebec / Kreg Ettenger -- 'The one who has changed is the person' : observations and explanations of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes / Kristine Skarbà, Kristin Vander Molen, Rosa Ramos, and Robert E. Rhoades -- Good intentions, bad memories, and troubled capital : American Indian knowledge and action in renewable energy projects / Raymond I. Orr and David B. Anderson -- Reclaiming the past to respond to climate change : Mayan farmers and ancient agricultural techniques in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico / Betty Bernice Faust, Armando Anaya-Hernâandez, and Helga Geovannini-Acuäna -- Can we learn from the past? policy history and climate change in Bangladesh / David Lewis -- Local perceptions and adaptation to climate change : a perspective from Western India / Dineshkumar Moghariya -- Ethno-ecology in the shadow of rain and the light of experience : local perceptions of drought and climate change in east Sumba, Indonesia / Yancey Orr, Russell Schimmer, and Roland Geerken -- Local knowledge and technology innovation in a changing world : traditional fishing communities in Tam Giang Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam / Thanh Vo and Jack Manno -- Conclusion : some reflections on indigenous knowledge and climate change / Dan Taylor, A. Peter Castro, and David W. Brokensha -- Resources / A. Peter Castro.