Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa : : Social and Cultural Dimensions.
"This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hi...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in African Geography Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in African Geography Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: epistemologies of global warming in the South. The social and cultural dimension of climate change in Southern Africa / Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer
- Part 1: Climate and climate change - justice epistemologies
- Drought, disaster and identity in northwestern Namibia in times of global climate change / Michael Bollig
- When rain is a person: rainmaking, relational persons, and post-human ontologies in sub-Saharan Africa / Michael Sheridan
- Environmental attitudes and narratives in two rural South African communities: implications for intervention / Werner Nell
- Conflicting narratives of extreme weather events in Durban, South Africa: politically opportunistic, experiential and climate-justice epistemologies in an extreme weather event / Patrick Bond, Mary Galvin
- Part 2: Climate change communication
- Receptivity to the knowledge of others: building urban climate resilience in southern African cities / Anna Taylor, Dianne Scott
- Print media coverage and the socio-contextual representation of climate change in Botswana / Gabriel Faimau, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Nelson Sello
- Part 3: Just Transition and international co-operation
- Climate change equity and extreme vulnerability / Steve Vanderheiden
- Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa: challenges for sustainable development, and the role of International co-operation / Matthias Rompel.