Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia, Crate Susan Alexandra
Автор: Halemba, Agnieszka (max Planck Institute For Social Research, Germany) Название: Telengits of southern siberia ISBN: 1138500178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138500174 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 53070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This new and engaging study explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai. It provides a comprehensive anthropological account of the contemporary religious life of the Telengits, holding important implications for wider debates in sociology and politics.
Автор: Susan Alexandra Crate Название: Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia ISBN: 0816541558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816541553 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 85270.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about “knowing” a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change.The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades working with Sakha, the Turkic-speaking horse and cattle agropastoralists of northeastern Siberia, Russia. Crate reveals Sakha’s essential relationship with alaas, the foundational permafrost ecosystem of both their subsistence and cultural identity. Sakha know alaas via an Indigenous knowledge system imbued with spiritual qualities. This counters the scientific definition of alaas as geophysical phenomena of limited range. Climate change now threatens alaas due to thawing permafrost, which, entangled with the rural changes of economic globalization, youth out-migration, and language loss, make prescient the issues of ethnic sovereignty and cultural survival.Through careful integration of contemporary narratives, on-site observations, and document analysis, Crate argues that local understandings of change and the vernacular knowledge systems they are founded on provide critical information for interdisciplinary collaboration and effective policy prescriptions. Furthermore, she makes her message relevant to a wider audience by clarifying linkages to the global permafrost system found in her comparative research in Mongolia, Arctic Canada, Kiribati, Peru, and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. This reveals how permafrost provides one of the main structural foundations for Arctic ecosystems, which, in turn, work with the planet’s other ecosystems to maintain planetary balance.Metaphorically speaking, we all live on permafrost.
Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric “Mammoth steppe” ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity— and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.
Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of “discontinuity,” Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.
Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric “Mammoth steppe” ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity— and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.
Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of “discontinuity,” Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.
Автор: J. van Huissteden Название: Thawing Permafrost ISBN: 3030313786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030313784 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides a cross-disciplinary overview of permafrost and the carbon cycle by providing an introduction into the geographical distribution of permafrost, with a focus on the distribution of permafrost and its soil carbon reservoirs. The chapters explain the basic physical properties and processes of permafrost soils: ice, mineral and organic components, and how these interact with climate, vegetation and geomorphological processes. In particular, the book covers the role of the large quantities of ice in many permafrost soils which are crucial to understanding carbon cycle processes. An explanation is given on how permafrost becomes loaded with ice and carbon. Gas hydrates are also introduced. Structures and processes formed by the intense freeze-thaw action in the active layer are considered (e.g. ice wedging, cryoturbation), and the processes that occur as the permafrost thaws, (pond and lake formation, erosion). The book introduces soil carbon accumulation and decomposition mechanisms and how these are modified in a permafrost environment. A separate chapter deals with deep permafrost carbon, gas reservoirs and recently discovered methane emission phenomena from regions such as Northwest Siberia and the Siberian yedoma permafrost.
Автор: Yang Daqing, Kane Douglas L. Название: Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems ISBN: 3030509281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030509286 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 204970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Introduction.- Arctic hydrology, permafrost and ecosystem / arctic system key components.- Climate change, variability, and extremes - past and future.- Snow cover and impact to northern hydrology/ecology.- Greenland ice sheet and arctic mountain glaciers.- Hydrology.- Streamflow regimes and changes/climate impact and human effect.- River/lake water temperature and thermal regimes.- River sediment/biogeochemistry and flux transport to the ocean.- Lakes/wetlands linkages and dynamics.- Lake and river ice processes.- Permafrost and seasonal frozen ground.- Permafrost classification and distribution.- Ground temperature regimes and changes/impacts.- Climate effect to regional permafrost conditions.- Permafrost-hydrology linkages/feedbacks (basin/case study).- Ecosystems.- Northern ecosystem features and functions.- Arctic NDVI patterns and changes including climatic and hydrological effects.- Land scape evolution/changes and factors.- Human activities and impacts.- Eco-hydrology research progress, needs, and directions.- Linkage and integration.- Land-ocean interface: large deltas and eateries.- River freshwater input.- River energy flux.- River sediment, nutrient and other geochemistry transport.- Extreme events - case study.- Arctic system integration - modelling, remote sensing, and synthesis.- Regional climate models.- Cold region hydrology models.- Snow cover models.- Permafrost models.- Vegetation / ecosystem models.- Coupled models for multiple components.- Earth system models - climate/land linkage to the ocean and sea ice.- Current and future arctic system science programs/projects.- SEARCH.- ICARP-III.- AMAP- arctic freshwater synthesis.- AC SWIPA update.- NASA - AboVE.- CCRN- Mac.- Satellite missions - PM/SWOT/SMAP/others.
Автор: Ming-ko Woo Название: Permafrost Hydrology ISBN: 3642429742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642429743 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 287890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Permafrost Hydrology systematically elucidates the roles of seasonally and perennially frozen ground on the distribution, storage and flow of water.
Автор: Heiko Balzter Название: Environmental Change in Siberia ISBN: 940073235X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400732353 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 222670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book details environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere. It also discusses information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies.
Автор: Heiko Balzter Название: Environmental Change in Siberia ISBN: 9048186404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048186402 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 222670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book details environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere. It also discusses information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies.
Автор: Ohta Takeshi, Hiyama Tetsuya, Iijima Yoshihiro Название: Water-Carbon Dynamics in Eastern Siberia ISBN: 9811363196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811363191 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 149060.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades. It analyzes the relationships between precipitation and evapotranspiration, gross primary production and runoff in the permafrost regions, which differ from those intropical and temperate forests. Eastern Siberia is located in the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent, and the land surface with underlying permafrost has developed over a period of seventy thousand years. The permafrost ecosystem has specific hydrological and meteorological characteristics in terms of the water and carbon dynamics, and the current global warming and resulting changes in the permafrost environment are serious issues in the high-latitude regions. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and professionals interested in forest meteorology and hydrology, forest ecology, and boreal vegetation, as well as the impact of climate change and water-carbon cycles in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.
Автор: Okladnikov Aleksei P. Название: The Peoples of Ancient Siberia: An Archeological History ISBN: 1680531441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680531442 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 117000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Foreword: Elena A. Okladnikova, Herzen University, St. Petersburg (Russia), Deputy Director for Museum Work at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Translators: Richard L. Bland, Archeologist (retired), U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Research Associates, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History; Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Institute of Geology & Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences; and Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Continental Ecosystems, Tomsk State University (Russia) The distinguished Russian archeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov's study reveals how a field archeologist goes about determining and writing prehistory. Over the course of his career, Okladnikov and his wife Vera Zaporozhskaya travelled across Siberia from the Lena River in the north to the Amur River in the south excavating archaeological sites. During that time Aleksei and Vera found and interpreted the rock art of the vast region from the Paleolithic Era to the present day. Relying on petroglyphs and pictographs left on cliffs and boulders, Okladnikov lays out in detail and straightforward language the prehistory of Siberia by "reading" these artifacts. This book permits the past to be told in its own words: the art portrayed on the cliffs of Siberia
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.
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