Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Claus Leggewie -- Carmen Meinert -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of Terms -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Climates and Cultures in Northern America -- Bernd Sommer -- Part 1 -- Ideas -- Chapter 1 -- The "American Way of Life" and US Views on Climate Change and the Environment -- Roland Benedikter, Eugene Cordero and Anne Marie Todd -- Chapter 2 -- From Conservationists to Environmentalists: The American Environmental Movement -- Angela Mertig -- Chapter 3 -- The Role of Norms in US Foreign Climate Policy -- Frederic Hanusch -- Part 2 -- Past -- Chapter 4 -- North American Climate History -- Samuel White, Kenneth M. Sylvester and Richard Tucker -- Chapter 5 -- Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718-1794 -- Eleonora Rohland -- Chapter 6 -- The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change before Hurricane Katrina -- Demetrius L. Eudell -- Part 3 -- Present -- Chapter 7 -- Science (and Policy) Friction: How Mass Media Shape US American Climate Discourses -- Maxwell Boykoff and Michael K. Goodman -- Chapter 8 -- "Save Ga. Ride this Bus": Racialised Poverty, Violence and Climate Change in Urban America -- Jürgen Heinrichs -- Chapter 9 -- Climate Change Beliefs and Climate-Relevant Behaviour at the Northern US West Coast- A Practice Theoretical Analysis -- Karin Schürmann -- Chapter 10 -- A New Clayoquot? Examining the Convergence of First Nations and Environmental NGOs in Vancouver's Anti-Pipeline Protests -- Omer Aijazi and Martin David  Aijazi and David -- Part 4 -- Prospects -- Chapter 11 -- Incorporating Climate Change Remedies into Community Development in Greenland -- Naotaka Hayashi -- Chapter 12 -- Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US.

Grit Martinez and Michael J. Paolisso Martinez and Paolisso -- Chapter 13 -- "Back to the Future": Imagining Climate Change Futures in US American Literature -- Antonia Mehnert -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, 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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