Virginia Tech
    • Log in
    View Item 
    •   VTechWorks Home
    • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
    • Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase
    • View Item
    •   VTechWorks Home
    • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
    • Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Fielding climate change: The role of anthropology

    Thumbnail
    Date
    2009
    Author
    Roncoli, C.
    Crane, T.
    Orlove, B.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Cultural anthropologists have become engaged in climate change research. Three conditions have led to this development including: the transformations that climate change is bringing to people, the recognition of the importance of research on the human dimensions of climate change, and the growing opportunities for anthropologists to participate in interdisciplinary climate adaptation research. Anthropology's study of climate change will help research the cultural meanings and social practices which cannot be captured by other disciplines. This chapter presents a number of anthropological studies, with identified epistemological and methodological approaches, that have led to particularly valuable insights. Four over-lapping axioms help explain how people comprehend climate change: how people perceive climate change through cultural lenses; how people comprehend what they see based on their mental models and social locations; how they give value to what they know in terms of shared meanings; and how they respond, individually and collectively, on the basis of these meanings and values. It is argued that anthropologists researching climate change are both challenged to broaden their field horizons and stand firm in their tradition of committed localism.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10919/68407
    Collections
    • Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase [3994]

    If you believe that any material in VTechWorks should be removed, please see our policy and procedure for Requesting that Material be Amended or Removed. All takedown requests will be promptly acknowledged and investigated.

    Virginia Tech | University Libraries | Contact Us
     

     

    VTechWorks

    AboutPoliciesHelp

    Browse

    All of VTechWorksCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Log inRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    If you believe that any material in VTechWorks should be removed, please see our policy and procedure for Requesting that Material be Amended or Removed. All takedown requests will be promptly acknowledged and investigated.

    Virginia Tech | University Libraries | Contact Us