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edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Nature
published: Jan 2011
ISBN:9780776607504
publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
imprint: University of Ottawa Press

Climate, Culture, Change

Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North

by Timothy B. Leduc

tagged: native american studies, environmental conservation & protection
Description

Understanding climate change through intercultural dialogue with the Inuit. Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today’s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge.
Climate, Culture, Change sheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives.
Published in English.

About the Author
Timothy B. Leduc is associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and author of A Canadian Climate of Mind.
Contributor Notes

Timothy B. Leduc is assistant professor of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Canada Prize, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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