Alleen Vandaag Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures – Robin Leichenko

This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization. In this book, Leichenko and O’Brien present a conceptual framework for analyzing the interactions between these two processes, and illustrate, through case studies, how these interactions create situations of “double exposure.”Drawing upon prominent recent and current climate-related events–Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, recurring droughts in India, an…