SINGER (Merrill)

Climate change and social inequality : the health and social costs of global warming / Merrill Singer. - London: Routledge, 2019. - vi, 247 pages ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The physical and social dimensions of climate change -- The rise and role of social inequality in the production of climate change -- Maintaining inequality : the ideology of denial and the creation of climate change uncertainty -- The polluting elite and the political economy of climate change denial -- Anthropological lens on climate change -- Changing world of the indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iņupiat peoples -- Water vulnerability and social equity in Ecuador -- On the bottom rung of a low lying nation : social ranking and climate change in Bangladesh -- Haiti : a legacy of colonialism, a future of climate change -- Climate change, desertification, and food insecurity in Mali -- The consequential intersection of social inequality and climate change : health, coping, and community organizing.

9781138102903 (hbk) 9781138102910 (pbk)


Global warming
Global warming
Environmental justice.

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