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Climate and Cultural Choice: Social Pathways to Mitigation

by Robert H. Winthrop
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041263982
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 284
  • Original Price: USD 233.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 595 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Global Warming & Climate Change

In Climate and Cultural Choice, Robert Winthrop offers some unconventional answers to two questions. Why are humans losing the fight against the climate crisis? What more can we do?

Scientists and politicians alike have treated climate change as a massive yet conventional environmental problem, caused by polluting greenhouse gases rather than toxic chemicals. In this book, Robert Winthrop demonstrates how this approach made climate change a technical problem for experts to define and solve, leaving citizens unengaged and paralysed by polarization and inaction. Yet climate change is not inherently an environmental problem--it is a social and political problem. Drawing on anthropology, history, and other disciplines, Winthrop explores the need for social innovation tailored to local conditions and values: a search for ways of life that are more satisfying, more supportive of well-being, and more protective of our climate. He examines case studies of successful and enduring practices which can help chart a course toward effective climate mitigation. These include increasing local self-sufficiency, conserving resources, gaining greater control over technology, and fostering regional economic networks to supplement growth-focused global markets. To conclude, the book derives strategies from this archive of experience and presents climate-positive innovations that are strongly motivated, enduring, and well rooted in social institutions and practices.

Climate and Cultural Choice will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, social movements, environmental anthropology and environmental politics.

Robert H. Winthrop is an environmental anthropologist based in Washington, DC, with broad training in the social sciences and four decades of both practical experience and research addressing complex problems of socio-environmental systems. He has worked as a consultant, a US government social scientist, and an academic, focusing on energy and resource extraction, climate change, indigenous rights, and social impact assessment. Winthrop is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Previously he served as senior social scientist at the Bureau of Land Management, US Department of the Interior. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, and the Society for Applied Anthropology, USA.

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