Climate stewardship : taking collective action to protect California / Adina Merenlender ; with Brendan Buhler ; foreword by Greg Sarris ; illustrations by Obi Kaufmann.

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ISBN:

9780520976450

Title:

Climate stewardship : taking collective action to protect California / Adina Merenlender ; with Brendan Buhler ; foreword by Greg Sarris ; illustrations by Obi Kaufmann.

Author:

Merenlender, Adina Maya, 1963- author.

Personal Author:

Merenlender, Adina Maya, 1963- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 277 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Preface : united by nature, guided by science -- Extreme events, life in the new normal -- Big bay to tech town -- A changing harvest -- Keeping forests green and snow white -- Climate canaries -- Los Angeles plants itself -- Riding the California current.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Climatic changes -- California.

Environmental protection -- California -- Citizen participation.

Environmental management -- California.

Climat -- Changements -- Californie.

Environnement -- Protection -- Californie -- Participation des citoyens.

Environnement -- Gestion -- Californie.

SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change

Climatic changes

Environmental management

Environmental protection -- Citizen participation

Geographic Term:

California

Added Author:

Buhler, Brendan,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3021610

Publication Date:

2021

Publication Information:

Oakland, California :

University of California Press,

[2021]

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Summary

As climate disruption intensifies the world over, Californians are finding solutions across a diversity of communities and landscapes.

Though climate change is a global existential threat, we cannot wait for nation-states to solve the problem when there are actions we can take now to protect our own communities. In Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California , readers are invited on a journey to discover that all life is interconnected and shaped by climate and to learn how communities can help tackle climate change.

Climate Stewardship shares stories from everyday people and shows how their actions enhance the resilience of communities and ecosystems across ten distinct bioregions. Climate science that justifies these actions is woven throughout, making it easy to learn about Earth's complex systems. The authors interpret and communicate these stories in a way that is enjoyable, inspiring, and even amusing.

California is uniquely positioned to develop and implement novel solutions to widespread climate challenges, owing to the state's remarkable biogeographic diversity and robust public science programs. Produced in collaboration with the UC California Naturalist Program, Climate Stewardship focuses on regenerative approaches to energy, agriculture, and land and water use across forested, agricultural, and urban landscapes. The authors' hopeful and encouraging tone aims to help readers develop a sense that they, too, can act now to make meaningful change in their communities.

Author Notes

Merenlender Adina :

Adina Merenlender is an internationally recognized conservation biologist who has authored more than 100 published works. She currently works as a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department at UC Berkeley.

Brendan Buhler is an award-winning science writer who has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and in Sierra and California magazines. His work has been collected in The Best American Science and Nature Writing .

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

A conservation biologist and an acclaimed science writer collaborate to communicate engaging stories that inspire and inform, with lessons for bioregions far beyond California. Each chapter integrates climate and ecological science with human behavior within the context of a particular community and ecosystem, from desert to forest, agrarian to urban, estuarine to riverine, coastal to mountainous, etc. Given California's diversity (populations and ecosystems), these stories of local community groups leading efforts to mitigate and prevent climate catastrophe are highly suggestive of applicability in other parts of the world. The lesson of the book is delivered by showing the consequences of human action (and inaction) for the sake of a livable climate worldwide. Numerous citations to scholarly references and reputable news sources are included for every chapter. Chapter summaries provide helpful cohesion for the disparate stories. The extensive index covers prominent community leaders, conservation groups, climate activists and solutions, key species (from abalone to zebra-tailed lizard), particular bioregions, and more. The concluding chapter thoughtfully analogizes from the way the COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased public awareness of scientific investigation to the reader's intended understanding that climate resilience requires both individual and collective responses on local and global scales. A good book for both public and academic libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --Alison Scott Ricker, Oberlin College