Climate and weather discourse in anthropology: From determinism to uncertain futures

Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 70-86

  Peterson, Nicole ^a   Broad, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315434773-8     Document Type: Chapter

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