| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
"Where Would I Go? There Was No Place with No Water" -- Disaster Evidence -- The Racial Politics of Settlers -- Engineering, Archives, and Experts -- Compensation and Resettlement -- Love Stories -- Accountability and the Militarization of Technoscience -- The Ordinary -- Materializing Race and Climate Change |
| Summary |
"Engineering Vulnerability is an ethnography of climate adaptation in Guyana, where different portions of the population experience and understand environmental threats differently. Sarah E. Vaughn focuses on the collaborations between state experts and citizens following the 2005 flood that left 75 percent of the country's population stranded in water, and highlights how government engineers and local villagers each had knowledge that was formed through their racial positioning in the country. While climate adaptation is often seen as primarily a state project, especially in relation to disaster, Vaughn shows that it cannot be understood apart from the multiple histories and relations to the environment that differently position citizens and experts who must work together in the face of climate vulnerability"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Guyana
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Climate change mitigation -- Guyana
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Environmental education -- Guyana
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Floods -- Guyana
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NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
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Climate change mitigation
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Climatic changes
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Ecology
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Environmental education
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Floods
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| SUBJECT |
Guyana -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Guyana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021025619 |
| ISBN |
1478022728 |
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9781478022725 |
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