The Other Russia Local Experience and Societal Change 1st Edition by Leo Granberg, Ann Mari Satre ISBN 9781315567259 1315567253

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ISBN 10: 1315567253
ISBN 13: 9781315567259
Author: Leo Granberg, Ann Mari Satre

The Other Russia Local Experience and Societal Change 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Using local knowledge to shrink the individualcarbonfootprint*

Introduction

Individuals and climate-change mitigation

Local information begets efficiency

Another area ofspecial local competence: physical architecture

Recognizing limits on local government capabilities

Notes

Bibliography

2 Whatlocal climate change plans can teach us aboutcity power*

Schroeder and Bulkeley’ s study ofLondon and Los Angeles

Relative city power: structural influences on autonomy

Greenhouse gas reduction opportunities

Local power in the proprietary domain

Cities’ ability to reduce emissions by shaping the built environment

Implementing emission reductions by managing waste

Cities as educators and purveyors of environmental norms

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

3 The role of local government units inmainstreaming climate-change adaptation The case of Albay, Philippines

Introduction

Vulnerability of the Philippines to disasters and climate change: Philippine disaster profile

Vulnerability to climate change

Climate-change adaptation in the Province ofAlbay

Vulnerability ofAlbay Province to climate-related disasters

Provincial disaster risk management approach

Mitigation

Disaster preparedness

Response and relief

Rehabilitation

Climate-change adaptation

Making it a goal

Ordaining policies and budget lines

Executing programs

Building institutions

Mainstreaming climate-change adaptation

Emergence ofchampions among local government officials

Climate change as a significant consideration withinlocal-government decision-making and inland-use plans

Conclusion

Bibliography

4 Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses in Xinjiang, China

Local climate change, water scarcity and distribution

Climate change: rising temperatures and increased precipitation

Higher temperatures

Water scarcity and increased precipitation

Water scarcity: climate change and socio-economic transformation

Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses

Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses

Notes

Bibliography

5 Local environmental initiatives inChinese and Dutch societies

Introduction

Pressure on cities

The SWITCH approach

Thinking interms ofsystems

Emphasis on a more ecological approach

Emphasis on a more integrated approach

Closing the urban water cycle

Local environmental change and society inChinese cities

Local environmental changes: approaches at three different levels

Examples ofChinese eco-cities and eco-provinces

Initiatives at the building level

Initiatives at the household level in China

The Netherlands

What can we learn from these experiences for ecological cities of the future?

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

6 Impacts and responses to climate change at the micro-spatial scale in Malawi, Botswana and Kenya

Introduction

Trends and impacts ofclimate change in Malawi

Malawi micro-climate-change response

Trends and impact ofclimate change inBotswana

Botswana micro-climate-change response

Trends and impact ofclimate change in Kenya

Kenya micro-climate-change response

Discussion

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

7 Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) Gendered resource systems and livelihood diversification, Tanzania1

Introduction

Conceptual framework

Intra-family dynamics and roles

Gendered participation inforest management

Case study: the Kiangara community and AVLFR

Key findings from the case study

Community, intercommunity and local politics over Angai

The local community leading the process

Gendered stakes of forest usage and products

Discussion

Conclusions: Who needs whom?

Notes

Bibliography

8 Pulp mills and mining: trajectories of non-traditional actors’ limits of influence, Argentina

Introduction

Framing concepts and analysis

Establishing a dialogue between the cases

Non-traditional actors and non-state actors:complementary or opposing poles?

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

9 Local campaigns against Shell or transnational campaignsagainst climate change? From the Niger Delta, Nigeria to Rossport, Ireland

Introduction

Environmentalism as transnational activism

Environmental movements: North and South?

The anti-Shell campaign in the Niger Delta

Corrib gas pipeline and refinery: resistance inCounty Mayo

Shell to Sea: the transnational campaign

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

10 On economy, entropy and local climate change

Introduction

Economy and thermodynamics: the tragic cost ofignoring physical science ineconomics

The economic value ofa commodity

A commentary on labor ineconomics and physical work

The market price and the role of money

The laws of thermodynamics

The first law ofthermodynamics

Irreversible process

The second law ofthermodynamics

Formulation of the second law

Formulation C (Clausius ‘ s formulation)

Formulation K (Kelvin’ s formulation)

Equivalence of K and C

Entropy

Thermodynamics and economic processes

The Earth as a closed system

Money and the laws ofenergy

Money and entropy

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