Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters (Routledge Environmental Humanities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032777001 ISBN 13: 9781032777009

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region.

The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. Synonymous with place embodied with weather patterns and environmental history, clime is understood as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the chapters showcase climate change as clime change that concurrently entails multispecies encounters, multifaceted cultural processes, and ecologically specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas.

As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.

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About the Author

Jelle J.P. Wouters is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Royal Thimphu College, and Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities.

Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology at Yunnan University and a Global Faculty Member of University of Cologne, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032777001
• ISBN 13: 9781032777009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Wouters Jelle J.P., Smyer Yü Dan