Lachapelle, Paul R.

Albrecht, Don E.

Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States.

London

2019

9780815380917

9781351211727

9780815380924

Book Description (Routledge)
The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing innovative approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation around the United States. Defining community more comprehensively than just spatial geography to include also communities of interest, identity and practice, this book highlights how individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change through more resilient social processes, government policies and sustainable practices.

Through close examinations of community efforts across the United States, including agricultural stakeholder engagement and permaculture projects, coastal communities and prolonged drought areas, and university extension and local governments, this book shows the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level. It will be useful to community development students, scholars and practitioners learning to respond to unexpected shocks and address chronic stress associated with climate change and its impacts.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Community Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Paul Lachapelle and Don Albrecht

SECTION ONE: COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST AND IDENTITY

Chapter 2: Earth's Changing Climate: A Community Primer
Rob Davies

Chapter 3: Public Opinion on Climate Change in Rural America: A Potential Barrier to Resilience
Shawn K. Olson-Hazboun and Peter D. Howe

Chapter 4: Building Local Resilience to Climate Change through Citizen Science, Environmental Education, and Decision-making
Erin E. Posthumus, LoriAnne Barnett, Theresa M. Crimmins, Jody Einerson, Esperanza Stancioff and Peter L. Warren

Chapter 5: Creating a Civic Spark: Using AmeriCorps National Service to Catalyze Rural Climate Change Action
Kif Scheuer, Kristen Wraith and Kristin Brubaker

Chapter 6: Participatory Research to Assess the Climate Resiliency of Snow-fed River Dependent Communities: A Collaborative Modeling Case Study in the Truckee-Carson River System
Loretta Singletary and Kelley Sterle

Chapter 7: Nevada′s Approach to Minimizing the Risk from Prolonged Drought
Mark Walker and Kerri Jean Ormerod

SECTION TWO: COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Chapter 8: Mitigating Projected Impacts of Climate Change and Building Resiliency through Permaculture
Roslynn Brain McCann, Jeremy Lynch and Jeff Adams

Chapter 9: Engaging Southeastern Science Educators in the Development of a Climate Change Instructional Module
Martha C. Monroe and Annie Oxarart

Chapter 10: Engaging with Michigan Agricultural Stakeholders to Address Climate Change
Julie E. Doll and Claire Needham Bode

Chapter 11: Communicating Climate Change at the Community Level
Huston Gibson

Chapter 12: University Extension Communities of Practice: Learning, Communicating, and Engaging on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the United States Corn Belt
Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, J. Arbuckle, Jamie Benning, Lois Wright Morton and Adam Wilke

SECTION THREE: COMMUNITIES OF PLACE

Chapter 13: Variables Influencing the Adoption of Sustainability Programs by Local Governments
John J. Duffy and Susan Todd

Chapter 14: Supporting Climate Adaptation Planning in Northwest Alaska
Nathan P. Kettle, Josephine-Mary Sam, Sarah F. Trainor and Glenn T. Gray

Chapter 15: Financial Resilience of Local Government Impacted by Natural Disasters: A Framework for Calculating Climate Change Risk Liability
J. Matthew Fannin

Chapter 16: The Role of Community Capitals in Climate Change Adaptation in Binational Setting
Kristen A. Goodrich, Danielle Boudreau, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Ana Eguiarte and Julio Lorda

Chapter 17: Engaging Citizens to Address Community Climate Change Issues
Daniel Kahl and Amber Campbell

Chapter 18 : Local Adaptation to Climate Change: What Comes Next?
Don Albrecht and Paul Lachapelle

£44.99 (Pb); £120 (Hb); £40,49 (eBook)