| Living with Environmental Change: Waterworlds Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Social Sciences; African Studies; Asian Studies; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Sustainable Development; Environmental Studies; Conservation - Environment Studies; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Environmental Management; Environmental Issues; Environment & Gender; Environment & Society; Biodiversity & Conservation; Human Geography; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Asia Pacific Studies; Climate Change; Cultural Geography; Development - Soc Sci; Environmental Anthropology; Globalisation; Indigenous Peoples; Regional Anthropology; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future. This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the Southeast Indian Coastal zone to the West-African dry-lands and deserts, as well as to Peruvian mountain communities and cities. Divided into four thematic parts - Water, Landscape, Technology, Time - this book uses rich photographic material to accompany the short texts and reflections in order to bring to life the human ingenuity and social responsibility of people in the face of new uncertainties. In an era of melting glaciers, drying lands, and rising seas, it shows how it is part and parcel of human life to take responsibility for the social community and take creative action on the basis of a localized understanding of the environment. This highly original contribution to the anthropological study of climate change is a must-read for all those wanting to understand better what climate change means on the ground and interested in a sustainable future for the Earth. Kirsten Hastrup is Professornbsp;at the Department ofnbsp;Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Cecilie Rubow is Associate Professor atnbsp;the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. |