Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change

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Conservation of the environmen

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Open book publishers

Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change : Open Book Publishers : 9781783749607 : 1783749601 : 07 Dec 2020 : Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitutes a significant, new contribution to understanding the multi-perspectivity of our debates on climate change, further highlighting

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