Download or read book Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru written by Astrid B. Stensrud and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the global emphasis on water's economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in Peru.
Download or read book Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru written by Astrid B. Stensrud and published by Anthropology, Culture and Soci. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the global emphasis on water's economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in Peru
Download or read book Anthropology and Climate Change written by Susan A. Crate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition’s pioneering focus on anthropology’s burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition’s focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists’ contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts – as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academic institutions to government bodies, international science agencies and foundations, working in interdisciplinary research teams and with community research partners. The contributions to this new edition showcase important new academic research, as well as applied and practicing approaches. They emphasize human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the last decade of community-based and community-driven research and disaster research; provide rich ethnographic insight into worldmaking practices, interventions, and collaborations; and discuss how, and in what ways, anthropologists work in policy areas and engage with regional and global assessments. This new edition is essential for established scholars and for students in anthropology and a range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, as well as for practitioners who engage with anthropological studies of climate change in their work.
Download or read book Climate Change The Chances of Afforestation to Reduce Risks Et Vulnerabilities in the High Andean Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Communities Perception of Climate Change Adaptation Disaster Risk Reduction and Ecosystem Based Solutions in the Chic n Watershed Peru written by Yaremi Karina Cruz Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya Andes and Arctic written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world’s altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Innovation-driven, the book offers multipolar clime case studies through the contributors’ historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern, and changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are geared toward deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between the notions of clime and climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity" in this book connotes not only the two polar regions and the tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also diversely debated perspectives of climate studies in the broadest sense. Contributors across the twelve chapters come from diverse fields of social and natural sciences and humanities, and geographically specialize, respectively, in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions. The first comparative study of climate change in altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this will be an important read for students, academics, and researchers in environmental humanities, anthropology, climate science, indigenous studies, and ecology.
Download or read book Hydraulic Infrastructure Development Irrigation Governance and Climate Change Adaptation in the Engineered Colca Siguas Watershed Peru written by Ramzi Michel Tubbeh Sierralta and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-led construction of large hydraulic infrastructures dramatically increased in the 20th century at a global level. This phenomenon continues to expand central state presence in otherwise remote rural areas and accelerates the transformation of riparian ecosystems, water flows, and social relationships. Drawing from political ecology, more-than-human ontologies originating in Science and Technology Studies (STS), and social-ecological systems scholarship, this dissertation uses a case study of the Majes-Siguas Special Project (PEMS) in southwestern Peru to analyze the recursive ways in which state-water-society relations are forged through hydraulic infrastructure development and accompanying water policies. PEMS is one of several hydraulic projects originating in an early 20th-century national modernization strategy which aimed to expand agriculture through coastal irrigation, create a rural middle class, and increase state control of land and water. As the project conveys water from a high-altitude dam to the lowland plains near the coast, it creates new relationships between water officials, the main project beneficiaries in the lowlands, and highland smallholding farmers. Water struggles amid changing political-economic and environmental conditions are at the core of these emerging relationships. This dissertation is organized around four core questions: (1) how has Peruvian water governance changed since the early 20th century? (2) how are different state-farmer relations forged through different histories and processes of PEMS water allocation? (3) how does the distribution of hydraulic infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance labor between farmers and technical staff influence local social relations? and (4) what are the merits and shortcomings of the Peruvian water license system as an institution for adaptive water governance in a context of environmental change? To address these questions, I conducted fieldwork between September 2018 and November 2019 in key irrigation sites serviced by PEMS. Methods include archival research, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, farmer surveys, land cover classification using remote sensing, and crop-water demand estimations. This research contributes to geographic scholarship on (1) the production of interrelated human-environment landscapes through biogeophysical and social processes; (2) collective labor and social organization in relationship to irrigation; and (3) state construction and state power. I highlight four main findings. First, the historical development of PEMS is rooted in a persistent spatial model of agricultural development that depicts the highlands as water sources and the arid lowlands as water-deserving sites of agricultural production. Second, differences in the ways that highland and lowland farmers obtained PEMS water are rooted in the spatial model of agricultural development and produce disparate state-farmer relations. Third, an entanglement of technical, biogeophysical, and policy factors shape hydraulic infrastructure construction, maintenance, and operation labor task distributions in site-specific ways, shaping local farmer-farmer relations as well. Fourth, the Peruvian water license system conceals and depoliticizes uneven water allocation processes, and lacks mechanisms for facilitating climate change adaptation amid glacial retreat and rising evapotranspiration rates. Together, these findings support the use of political-ecological, social-ecological, and historical-geographical analyses of water governance at different scales.
Download or read book Andean Meltdown written by Karsten Paerregaard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. A pathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans.
Download or read book Environmental Anthropology written by Michael Bollig and published by UTB. This book was released on 2023 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unequal Ocean written by Maximilian Viatori and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a decade of ethnographic and archival research in Peru, this volume reveals how prevailing representations of the ocean obscure racialized disparities and the ways that different people experience the impacts of the climate crisis. Tackling important subjects of global concern, the author presents a complex image of Peru’s global seascapes as historical spaces comprising precarious worlds that expose people, nonhuman species, and places to unequal levels of harm. He traces how powerful actors in Peru represent the ocean in ways that erase the systemic inequalities, histories of uneven development, and extractive violence that have shaped ocean life. These erasures underscore the need for alternative representations of the ocean that highlight the engagements and commitments that make oceanic ecologies possible, as well as the material relationships and unequal positions of different people and species within them. The author analyzes a multitude of timely topics, including waves and coastal development, the circulation of ocean waste, El Niño warming events, and the extraction of jumbo squid. This book also addresses expanding scholarly interest in the world’s oceans as sites for thinking about social inequities, environmental politics, and multispecies relationships.
Download or read book Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters written by Jelle J.P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. Synonymous with place embodied with weather patterns and environmental history, clime is understood as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the chapters showcase climate change as clime change that concurrently entails multispecies encounters, multifaceted cultural processes, and ecologically specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas. As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.
Download or read book Climate Capitalism and Communities written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography of Climate Change written by Richard Aspinall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental, social and economic priorities now and for the future. Climate change also spans spatial, temporal and organisational scales, and has strong links with nature-society relationships, environmental dynamics, and vulnerability. Understanding the full range of possible consequences of climate change is essential for informed decision making and debate. This book provides a collection of chapters that span environmental, social and economic aspects of climate change. Together the chapters provide a diverse and contrasting series that highlights the need to analyze, review and debate climate change and its possible impacts and consequences from multiple perspectives. The book also is intended to promote discussion and debate of a more integrated, inclusive and open approach to climate change and demonstrates the value of geography in addressing climate change issues. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Water Governance in Peru written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While COVID-19 has hit Peru particularly hard, with more than half a million cases, the pandemic further emphasised the importance of water and sanitation for health, the environment and the economy. The country is not yet on track to meet the targets of SDG 6 “Clean water and sanitation” by 2030, with 3.4 million Peruvians (10.2% of the population) lacking improved access to water services and 8 million Peruvians (25.5%) without improved access to sewerage services, and a large urban-rural divide.
Download or read book Why Forests Why Now written by Frances Seymour and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.
Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
Download or read book The High Mountain Cryosphere written by Christian Huggel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a definitive overview of the global drivers of high-mountain cryosphere change and their implications for people across high-mountain regions.
