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Author: Kari Marie Norgaard
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0262515857

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Download Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of "Bygdaby," the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2000-2001.In 2000-2001 the first snowfall came to Bygdaby two months later than usual; ice fishing was impossible; and the ski industry had to invest substantially in artificial snow-making. Stories in local and national newspapers linked the warm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residents did not write letters to the ed Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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