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Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming.

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Detecting and understanding environmental change is a hallmark of the natural and physical sciences. However, given the development, economic, and policy drivers of anthropogenic activities, the social sciences are key for designing and implementing solutions-based approaches to climate impacts. Contributors to this volume take a targeted approach by focusing on potential responses to climate change at the local scale, adopting a dual emphasis on diverse regions and cross-cutting themes. Further strengths include a sound foundation in social theory, which features important contributions from practitioners of anthropology, highlighting especially the rise of the subfield of climate anthropology. Overall, this text addresses broad issues at the interface of climate change and social sciences by focusing on empirical case studies across three areas. Chapters are organized into three parts: "Ways of Knowing," "Situations and Decisions," and "Politics, Policies, and Contestation." Many chapters allude to forces that hinder meaningful climate action despite the clear threats to multiple sectors. In short, most people are caught up in their longstanding habits and concerned with the immediacy of their daily lives. This book argues that to implement meaningful actions, the scale and context represented at the community level matters most. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --Roberto Antonio Delgado, National Science Foundation

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Susanna Hoffman is an internationally recognized expert on disaster. She is the author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, including Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice (Berghahn, 2019). She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group for the Society for Applied Anthropology and is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences.