Chapter 4 Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém, Brazil: Environmental Memories and Urban Floods

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction. Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down 1
6. Part I. Ways of Knowing
7. Chapter 1 Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change 29
8. Chapter 2 How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas 49
9. Chapter 3 Who Is Perturbed by Ecological Perturbations? Marine Scientists’ and Polynesian Fishers’ Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak 65
10. Chapter 4 Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém, Brazil: Environmental Memories and Urban Floods 90
11. Part II. Situations and Decisions
12. Chapter 5 Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations 113
13. Chapter 6 Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Oversimplification of Local Responses 131
14. Chapter 7 “The Times They Are A-Changin’” but “The Song Remains the Same”: Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand 167
15. Chapter 8 Climate Change and East Africa’s Past: Three Cautionary Tales 201
16. Chapter 9 “Our Existence Is Literally Melting Away”: Narrating and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria 223
17. Part III. Politics, Policies, and Contestation
18. Chapter 10 Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley 249
19. Chapter 11 Climate Resilience through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwestern United States 269
20. Chapter 12 The Return to What Has Never Been: A View on the Animal Presence in Future Natures 292
21. Chapter 13 Emitting Inequity: The Sociopolitical Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico 313
22. Chapter 14 Disaster and Climate Change 339
23. Afterword. Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System 363
24. Index 377