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dc.contributor.editorAhrens, Jörn
dc.contributor.editorHalbmayer, Ernst
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T13:51:00Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T13:51:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63072
dc.description.abstractThis book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation. Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in African Geographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment::RNPG Climate changeen_US
dc.subject.otherafrica;climate;climate change;climate justice;decolonial;epistemologies;political science;sociology;south africaen_US
dc.titleClimate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africaen_US
dc.title.alternativeSocial and Cultural Dimensionsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003180814en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032018560en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032018522en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781003180814en_US
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages228en_US


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