Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today’s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge.
Climate, Culture, Change sheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 304.2089/970719
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780776607504 9780776619408
- LCCN
- GN476.7
- LCCN Item number
- L43 2010eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vii, 267 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00226683 (OCoLC)727730957 (CaOOCEL)436490
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Preface and Acknowledgements 6
- Introduction: Endangered Knowledge 13
- Sila Wisdom for a Time of Change 29
- Researching Gaia’s Uncertain Climate 57
- Canadian Call for a Global Conscience 86
- Colonial Apologies from Canada? 115
- American Fuel for a Global Apocalypse 147
- Making Carbon Confessions to Sedna 181
- Conclusion: Our Climatic Challenge 214
- Bibliography 239
- Index 256
