TY - BOOK ID - 85727242 TI - Environmental change and African societies AU - Tischler, Julia AU - Haltermann, Ingo PY - 2019 SN - 9004410848 900441083X PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change KW - Regional & national history KW - African history KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Environmental conditions KW - Africa, Black KW - Africa, Subsaharan KW - Africa, Tropical KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Black Africa KW - Sub-Sahara Africa KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Subsahara Africa KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - Tropical Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85727242 AB - The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler. ER -