Introduction: Climates and Cultures in Northern America / Bernd Sommer -- The "American Way of Life" and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment / Roland Benedikter, Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd -- From Conservationists to Environmentalists : The American Environmental Movement / Angela Mertig -- The Role of Norms for US Foreign Climate Policy / Frederic Hanusch -- North American Climate History / Samuel White, Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker -- Hurricanes in New Orleans : Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718-1794 / Eleonora Rohland -- The Landscapes of Man : Ecological and Social Change before Hurricane Katrina / Demetrius Eudell -- Science (and Policy) Friction : How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses / Maxwell T. Boykoff and Michael K. Goodman -- "Save Ga$. Ride this Bus" : Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America / Jurgen Heinrichs -- Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast : A Practice Theoretical Analysis / Karin Schurmann -- A New Clayoquot? : Examining the Convergence of First Nation and Environmental NGO s in Vancouver's Anti-Pipeline Protests / Omer Aijazi and Martin David -- Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland / Naotaka Hayashi -- Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Example from the East Coast of the US / Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso -- "Back to the Future" : Imagining Climate Change Futures in U S American Literature / Antonia Mehnert.
Summary:
Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world℗s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. American views on climate change and the environment are highly polarized. Despite the US℗s and Canada℗s rejection of international binding climate targets, some of the world℗s most ambitious climate initiatives can be found on the local and regional level. In this book academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, educational studies, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society℗nature interactions in ℗ culturally as well as ecologically ℗ one of the most diverse regions of the world.
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