Barbuda: Changing Times, Changing Tides

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Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Rebecca Boger (Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA)

Barbuda

Changing Times, Changing Tides

Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Rebecca Boger (Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA)

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Routledge India
26 August 2024

Regional studies; Anthropology; Human geography; Global warming

Series: Critical Climate Studies

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world. The book examines how climate has changed in the Caribbean over different spatial and temporal scales and how varying natural and anthropogenic factors have shaped Barbuda’s climatic and cultural history. It highlights projections of 21st-century climate change for the Caribbean region and its likely impacts on Barbuda’s coastal ecosystems, potable groundwater resources, and heritage. With essays by researchers from the United States, Canada, Caribbean, and Europe, this volume straddles a range of disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoclimatology, environmental sciences, science education, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

Drawing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that explore the intersection of natural and social systems over the longue durée, the volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of ethnography, social anthropology, climate action, development studies, public policy, and climate change.

Edited by: Sophia Perdikaris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA), Rebecca Boger (Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032390147
ISBN 10: 103239014X
Series: Critical Climate Studies
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sophia Perdikaris is Director of Global Integrative Studies (the home of Anthropology, Geography, and Global Studies) and Happold Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her area is environmental archaeology with a specialty in animal bones from archaeological sites. She is interested in people–environment interactions through time and the response of both to big climatic events. Rebecca Boger is Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and has a background in geospatial technologies, environmental science, and science education. Her research in Barbuda examines socio-ecological resilience, sustainability, environmental/climate change modeling, and community-based mapping.