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Climate and Cultural Choice: Social Pathways to Mitigation book cover

1st Edition

Climate and Cultural Choice Social Pathways to Mitigation

By Robert H. Winthrop Copyright 2027
304 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Climate and Cultural Choice, Robert Winthrop offers some unconventional answers to two questions. Why are humans losing the fight against the climate crisis? What more can we do? Scientists and politicians alike have treated climate change as a massive yet conventional environmental problem, caused by polluting greenhouse gases rather than toxic chemicals. In this book, Robert Winthrop... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

Foundations

1. What More Can We Do?

2. Is Climate Change an Environmental Problem?

3. What Motivates Action?

Applications

4. Designs for Local Resilience 

5. Fostering Sufficiency and Self-Reliance

6. Conserving the Commons

7. Tools for Conviviality

8. Decentering Markets

9. Strategies for Action

 

Biography

Robert H. Winthrop is an environmental anthropologist based in Washington, DC, with broad training in the social sciences and four decades of both practical experience and research addressing complex problems of socio-environmental systems. He has worked as a consultant, a U.S. government social scientist, and an academic, focusing on energy and resource extraction, climate change, indigenous rights, and social impact assessment. Robert Winthrop is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Previously he served as senior social scientist at the Bureau of Land Management, US Department of the Interior. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Uk and the Society for Applied Anthropology, USA.

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