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Climate change and social inequality : the health and social costs of global warming
Author
Title
Climate change and social inequality : the health and social costs of global warming / Merrill Singer.
ISBN
1315103354
9781315103358
1138102903
1138102911
9781138102903
9781138102910
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 247 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Earthscan from Routledge."
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects relations between social groups and forces us to contemplate the ways in which we think about and engage with the environment and each other. Employing the experience-near anthropological lens to consider human social life in an environmental context, this book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. Over the course of the volume, Singer argues that the social and economic precarity of poorer populations and communities-from villagers to the urban disadvantaged in both the global North and global South-is exacerbated by climate change, putting some people at considerably enhanced risk compared to their wealthier counterparts. Moreover, the book adopts and supports the argument that the key driver of global climatic and environmental change is the global economy controlled primarily by the world's upper class, which profits from a ceaseless engine of increased production for national middle classes who have been converted into constant consumers. Drawing on case studies from Alaska, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and Mali, Climate Change and Social Inequality will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health. -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print vesion : Singer, Merrill. Climate change and social inequality. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge advances in climate change research
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The physical and social dimensions of climate change
The rise and role of social inequality in the production of climate change
Maintaining inequality : the ideology of denial and the creation of climate change uncertainty
The polluting elite and the political economy of climate change denial
Anthropological lens on climate change
Changing world of the indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat peoples
Water vulnerability and social equity in Ecuador
On the bottom rung of a low lying nation : social ranking and climate change in Bangladesh
Haiti : a legacy of colonialism, a future of climate change
Mali: climate change, desertification, and food insecurity
The consequential intersection of social inequality and climate change : health, coping, and community organizing.
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