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Barbuda Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Barbuda By Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Summary

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda, West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world.

Barbuda Summary

Barbuda: Changing Times, Changing Tides by Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world. The book examines how climate has changed in the Caribbean over different spatial and temporal scales and how varying natural and anthropogenic factors have shaped Barbudas climatic and cultural history. It highlights projections of 21st-century climate change for the Caribbean region and its likely impacts on Barbudas coastal ecosystems, potable groundwater resources, and heritage. With essays by researchers from the United States, Canada, Caribbean, and Europe, this volume straddles a range of disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoclimatology, environmental sciences, science education, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

Drawing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that explore the intersection of natural and social systems over the longue duree, the volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of ethnography, social anthropology, climate action, development studies, public policy, and climate change.

About Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Sophia Perdikaris is Director of Global Integrative Studies (the home of Anthropology, Geography, and Global Studies) and Happold Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her area is environmental archaeology with a specialty in animal bones from archaeological sites. She is interested in peopleenvironment interactions through time and the response of both to big climatic events.

Rebecca Boger is Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and has a background in geospatial technologies, environmental science, and science education. Her research in Barbuda examines socio-ecological resilience, sustainability, environmental/climate change modeling, and community-based mapping.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. A long-term perspective of climate change in the Caribbean and its impacts on the island of Barbuda 2. Water use and availability on Barbuda from the colonial times to the present: An intersection of natural and social systems 3. Developing agency and resilience in the face of climate change: Ways of knowing, feeling, and practicing through art and science 4. Fallow deer: The unprotected biocultural heritage of Barbuda 5. From the far ground to the near ground: Barbudas shifting agricultural practices 6. Written with lightning: Filming Barbuda before the storm 7. Disaster capitalism: Who has a right to control their future?

Additional information

NPB9781032326399
9781032326399
1032326395
Barbuda: Changing Times, Changing Tides by Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-27
158
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