ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the first comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, an endeavor which has been in the making for the past two decades. First, it aims to document and assess the developmental status of the anthropology of climate change. Second, it seeks to promote the rapid further development of this field in light of the world-changing implications of climate change. Third, the hope to demonstrate the useful contributions of the critical socioecological framework that guides assessment. Finally, based on it propose an orientation to a course of action that believe is needed to avoid calamity. Beyond the natural sciences, over the course of the past decade or so, a gradual interest in climate change has emerged as well in anthropology, to the point, that an overview of the anthropology of climate change is now warranted.
