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 also include 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.
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1 Community Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century |
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PART I Communities of Interest and Identity |
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2 Earth's Changing Climate: A Community Primer |
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3 Public Opinion on Climate Change in Rural America: A Potential Barrier to Resilience |
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4 Building Local Resilience to Climate Change Through Citizen Science, Environmental Education and Decision-making |
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5 Creating a Civic Spark: Using AmeriCorps National Service to Catalyze Rural Climate Change Action |
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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 |
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7 Nevada's Approach to Minimizing the Risk from Prolonged Drought |
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PART II Communities of Practice |
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8 Mitigating Projected Impacts of Climate Change and Building Resiliency through Permaculture |
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9 Engaging Southeastern Science Educators in the Development of a Climate Change Instructional Module |
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10 Engaging with Michigan Agricultural Stakeholders to Address Climate Change |
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11 Communicating Climate Change at the Community Level |
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12 University Extension Communities of Practice: Learning, Communicating and Engaging with Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the United States Corn Belt |
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PART III Communities of Place |
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13 Variables Influencing the Adoption of Sustainability Programs by Local Governments |
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14 Supporting Climate Adaptation Planning in Northwest Alaska |
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15 Financial Resilience of Local Governments Impacted by Natural Disasters: A Framework for Calculating Climate Change Risk and Liability |
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16 The Role of Community Capitals in Climate Change Adaptation in a Binational Setting |
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17 Engaging Citizens to Address Community Climate Change Issues |
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18 Local Adaptation to Climate Change: What Comes Next? |
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Paul Lachapelle is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Montana State University-Bozeman USA. His teaching and research spans many disciplines and practices; from community climate change resiliency to social impact investing to diversity, inclusion and social justice topics. His publications include the edited book in this current series, "Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level" (Routledge 2019) as well as journal articles on energy impacts in communities, democratic practice and local governance, and community visioning. He earned a Ph.D. (Forestry) at the University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation with a focus on natural resource policy and governance and serves as Editor of the Community Development Society Current Issues Book Series and member of the Board of Directors (and past-President) of the International Association for Community Development.
Don Albrecht began his role as the Director of the Western Rural Development Center in July 2008. He received a B.S. in Forestry, an M.S. in Sociology from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from Iowa State University. He then served as a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University for 27 years where he worked in the Departments of Rural Sociology and Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences. He has researched and written extensively on the issues confronting the communities and residents of rural America. Among the issues explored are natural resource concerns, economic restructuring, demographic trends, poverty, inequality and education.
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