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Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa: Social and Cultural Dimensions

Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa: Social and Cultural Dimensions

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in African Geography

Environmental StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1032018526
ISBN13: 9781032018522
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 26 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This 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.

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