A5090211831- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Climate variability and models
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Climate change and permafrost
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Latin American history and culture
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Risk Perception and Management
Columbia University
2015-2024
City University of Seattle
2024
Earth Island Institute
2015-2022
University of California, Davis
1998-2012
University of Georgia
2012
University of Zurich
2012
University of California, Berkeley
1974-2010
Climate Foundation
2010
Farmers in southern Uganda seek information to anticipate the interannual variability timing and amount of precipitation, a matter great importance them since they rely on rain-fed agriculture for food supplies income. The four major components their knowledge system are: (1) longstanding familiarity with seasonal patterns precipitation temperature, (2) set local traditional climate indicators, (3) observation meteorological events, (4) about progress seasons elsewhere region. We examine...
Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide adequate supplies of clean water all people becomes more challenging. Anthropologists contribute by seeing not only a resource, but also substance that connects many realms social life. They trace different forms valuing water, examine often unequal distribution explore rules and institutions govern use shape politics, study multiple, conflicting knowledge systems through which actors understand water. offer...
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead it is symptomatic of the history European and North American colonialism. It therefore be addressed by decolonizing process transforming relations between scientific expertise knowledge systems Indigenous Peoples local communities. Partnership across diverse can path to transformative only if those are respected in their entirety, indivisible cultural wholes knowledge,...
Foreword by R. T. Zuidema Preface Introduction 1. An Ethnographic and Calendrical Description of Misminay 2. The Organization Structure Space 3. Sun the Moon 4. Meteorological Lore 5. Stars Constellations 6. Collca: Celestial Storehouse 7. Crosses in Astronomy Cosmology 8. Twilight 9. Yana Phuyu: Dark Cloud Animal 10. Summary Conclusions Appendix: Stellar Reported Other Cuzco-Area Ethnographers Notes Bibliography Index
▪ Abstract Conservation programs for protected areas and plant genetic resources have evolved in similar ways, beginning with a focus on single species expanding to ecosystem strategies that involve the participation of local people. Anthropologists described increasing importance people conservation programs, both populations area management farmers resources. Both link populations, national agencies, international organizations. Anthropological research (a) documents knowledge practices...
This paper discusses the role and relevance of shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) new scenarios that combine SSPs with representative concentration (RCPs) for climate change impacts, adaptation, vulnerability (IAV) research. It first provides an overview uses social–environmental in IAV studies identifies main shortcomings earlier such scenarios. Second, elaborates on two aspects would improve their usefulness compared to scenario sets: (i) enhancing applicability while retaining coherence...
Findings are reported from two field studies that measured the evolution of coastal residents' risk perceptions and preparation plans as hurricanes—Isaac Sandy—were approaching U.S. coast during 2012 hurricane season. The data suggest residents threatened by such storms had a poor understanding threat posed storms; they overestimated likelihood their homes would be subject to hurricane-force wind conditions but underestimated potential damage winds could cause, misconstrued greatest coming...
Climate change decision-making has emerged in recent decades as an area of research and practice, expanding on earlier focus climate policy. Defined the study decisions relevant for change, it draws developments decision science, particularly advances cognitive deliberative processes individuals organizations. The effects climate, economic, social, other framings have been studied, often showing that nonclimate frames can be effective as, or more than, promoting action. concept urgency,...
Climate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but the high end of risk, i.e., where risks become existential, poorly framed, defined, analyzed in scientific literature. This gap at odds with fundamental relevance existential for humanity, it also limits ability communities engage emerging debates narratives about dimension climate that have recently gained considerable traction. paper intends address this by scoping defining related change. We first...