西方人类学气候变化研究述评

A Review of Studies of Climate Change by Anthropologists in the West

西方人类学气候变化研究有着悠久的学科传统。当今的西方人类学气候变化研究形成了多种理论解释架构和方法论,重点关注气候变化成因的文化解释、气候变化影响的民族志调查与研究、气候变化的应对与适应方式。西方人类学气候变化研究在全球性协商和跨学科对话中逐步走向成熟,在未来发展中具有广阔的前景。

The anthropological studies of climate change in the West have long academic traditions. Today anthropological research of climate change has formed diverse theoretical frameworks and methodology. It made significantly contributions to a variety of aspects, such as cultural explanations of climate change, ethnographical research of effects of climate change, adaptive methods to climate change, etc. The anthropological studies of climate change in the West has gradually grown in the process of negotiations and communications on global scale, and it has broad outlook in the future development.