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Global Warming in Local Discourses : How Communities Around the World Make Sense of Climate Change / Edited by Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Communications SerPublisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2020Description: 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781800641259
  • 1800641257
  • 1783749385
  • 9781783749393
  • 1783749393
  • 9781783749409
  • 1783749407
  • 9781783749386
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.73874 23
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses / Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder -- The Case of "Costa del Nuuk": Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change / Freja C. Eriksen -- Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines: The Case of Palawan / Thomas Friedrich -- Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception / Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann and Dorothee Arlt -- What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit -- Living on the Frontier: Laypeople's Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh / Shameem Mahmud -- Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective / Friederike E. L. Otto -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
Summary: 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 community.
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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 community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses / Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder -- The Case of "Costa del Nuuk": Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change / Freja C. Eriksen -- Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines: The Case of Palawan / Thomas Friedrich -- Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception / Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann and Dorothee Arlt -- What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit -- Living on the Frontier: Laypeople's Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh / Shameem Mahmud -- Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective / Friederike E. L. Otto -- List of Illustrations -- Index.

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