Living with environmental change
Subtitle: waterworlds
By: edited by Kirsten Hastrup & Cecilie Rubow
Contributors: Earthscan from Routledge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780415746670
Subjects: Water; Environmental aspects; Climatic changes; Global environmental change
Description: 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.

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."--Pub. desc.
Notes: "Earthscan from Routledge"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-301).
Table of contents: title: Part 1 Water; title: 1. Introduction / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 2. Narwhals and Navigators on the Arctic Sea / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 3. Ephemeral Tsunamis, Emotional Waves, and Enduring Islands / Maria Louise B. Robertson; title: 4. Sea Water to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru / Astrid B. Stensrud; title: 5. Bursting Bodies of Water / Mattias B. Rasmussen; title: 6. When it Rains and the River Grows / Astrid O. Andersen; title: 7. The Elusive Pleasure of Rain in the Sahel / Jonas Ø. Nielsen; title: 8. Dams: Management versus Luck / Mette F. Olwig; title: 9. Water as Power and Destroyer / Frank Sejersen; title: 10. New Opportunities turning into Disaster / Anette Reenberg; title: 11. Coastal Gardens and their Magic / Frida Hastrup; title: 11. The Sprawled Way of Detergents / Cecilie Rubow; title: 12. Droughts: Complex Social Phenomena / Christian Vium; title: 13. Water Quantity vs. Water Quality / Laura V. Rasmussen; title: 14. Fixed and Fluid Waters: Mirroring the Arctic and the Pacific / Kirsten Hastrup and Maria Louise B. Robertson; title: Part 2. Technology; title: 15. Introduction / Cecilie Rubow; title: 16. Sea Level and Coastal Protection / Cecilie Rubow; title: 17. Urbanizing Water in a Context of Scarcity / Christian Vium; title: 18. A Job-Machine Powered by Water / Frank Sejersen; title: 19. Life in the Shadow of a Water Tower / Astrid O. Andersen; title: 20. Waste and Water; title: Connected and Mixed / Maria Louise B. Robertson; title: 21. Inverted Watering Strategies in Senegal / Anette Reenberg; title: 22. Cobs as Technological Solutions / Mette F. Olwig; title: 23. The Imagined Water Pump / Jonas Ø. Nielsen; title: 24. Unpredictable Side Effects of New Technologies / Laura V. Rasmussen; title: 25. Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers / Astrid B. Stensrud; title: 26. Dry Technologies and Community Bureaucracies / Mattias B. Rasmussen; title: 27. A Life Jacket Story / Frida Hastrup; title: 28. Unpacking the Dog Sledge / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 29. Water Technologies. Mirroring Great Expectations in Greenland and Ghana / Mette F. Olwig and Frank Sejersen.; title: Part 3. Landscape; title: 30. Introduction / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 31. Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source / Astrid B. Stensrud; title: 32. Knowing Landscapes of Water in Kiribati / Maria Louise B. Robertson; title: 33. Borders at sea / Frida Hastrup; title: 34. Making Urban Landscapes; title: People, Water, Materials / Astrid O. Andersen; title: 35. Dreams, Water and the Remodelling of Place / Frank Sejersen; title: 36. Strategic Thinking: Changeable Usages of the Nigerien Landscape / Anette Reenberg; title: 37. Landscapes of Droughts and Floods on the Desert Margins / Laura V. Rasmussen; title: 38. A Landscape of Ice / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 39. Walking Along Water / Mattias B. Rasmussen; title: 39. Old Water, Gardens and Prophetic Powers in the Sahel / Jonas Ø. Nielsen; title: 40. Can You See Climate Change in a Changing Environment? / Cecilie Rubow; title: 41. Mental Topographies / Mette F. Olwig; title: 42. Nomadic Landscapes and Ephemeral Resources / Christian Vium; title: 43. Icons of Climate Change. Mirroring the Sahel and the Andes / Astrid O. Andersen and Jonas Ø. Nielsen; title: Part 4. Time; title: 44. Introduction / Cecilie Rubow; title: 45. Glacial Time / Kirsten Hastrup; title: 46. Seasons, Timings, and the Rhythms of Life / Mattias B. Rasmussen; title: 47. Flexible Trajectories: Nomadic Pastoral Mobility Patterns / Christian Vium; title: 48. Still Life on the Shore / Frida Hastrup; title: 49. Appraising Change: A Question of Baseline / Anette Reenberg; title: 50. Litres per Second: Measuring the Water Flow / Astrid B. Stensrud; title: 51. New Scenarios and Unstable Temporalities / Cecilie Rubow; title: 52. Facing Reality; title: Managing/Imagining the Time Left on an Atoll / Maria Louise B. Robertson; title: 53. Anticipating Futures and the Rhythms of Water / Frank Sejersen; title: 54. Slow versus Fast Changes in Sahelian Land Use Systems / Laura V. Rasmussen; title: 55. Three Calendars and the Test of Time in Northern Sahel / Jonas Ø. Nielsen; title: 56. "Packages" with Disparate Time Horizons / Mette F. Olwig; title: 57. Urban Talks of Climate and Weather / Astrid O. Andersen; title: 58. Times of Climate Change in Religion and Ethics. Mirroring the Andes and the Pacific / Cecilie Rubow and Mattias B. Rasmussen.