ABSTRACT
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|12 pages
Community Approaches to Climate Change
part I|102 pages
Communities of Interest and Identity
chapter 3|16 pages
Public Opinion on Climate Change in Rural America
chapter 5|18 pages
Creating a Civic Spark
chapter 6|16 pages
Participatory Research to Assess the Climate Resiliency of Snow-Fed River Dependent Communities
part II|80 pages
Communities of Practice
chapter 12|15 pages
University Extension Communities of Practice
part III|87 pages
Communities of Place