Environmental and climate change in South and Southeast Asia : : how are local cultures coping? / / edited by Barbara Schuler.

• Superior document: Climate and Culture, Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Schuler, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Based on pioneering research, this volume on South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on the vast and largely uncharted domain of how local cultures are coping with climate changes and environmental crises.The primary focus is on three countries that have high emission rates: India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Whereas the dominant discourse on climate largely reflects the view of Western cultures, this volume adds indigenous views and practices that provide insight into Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic responses. Making use of textual materials, fieldwork, and analyses, it highlights the close links between climate solutions, forms of knowledge, and the various socio-cultural and political practices and agencies within societies. The volume demonstrates that climate is global and plural. Contributors are: Monika Arnez, Somnath Batabyal, Joachim Betz, Susan M. Darlington, Dennis Eucker, Rüdiger Haum, Albertina Nugteren, Marcus Nüsser andamp; Ravi Baghel, Martin Seeger, and Janice Stargardt.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction – The Dynamics of Climate and the Dynamics of Culture / Barbara Schuler -- 1 Cosmos, Commodity, and Care: Three Layers in Hindu Environmental Awareness / Albertina Nugteren -- 2 Ideas and Images of Nature in Thai Buddhism: Continuity and Change / Martin Seeger -- 3 Shifting Notions of Nature and Environmentalism in Indonesian Islam / Monika Arnez -- 4 Irrigation in South Thailand as a Coping Strategy against Climate Change: Past and Present / Janice Stargardt -- 5 The Emergence of the Cryoscape: Contested Narratives of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics and Climate Change / Marcus Nüsser and Ravi Baghel -- 6 A Shift in India’s Domestic and International Climate Policy? / Joachim Betz -- 7 New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi / Somnath Batabyal -- 8 Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change / Susan M. Darlington -- 9 Mitigating Climate Change: An Additional Role for Technology and Policy in India as well as International Arenas / Rüdiger Haum -- 10 Institutional Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia: The Role of ASEAN / Dennis Eucker -- Bibliography / Barbara Schuler -- Index / Barbara Schuler.