Sea Change

An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Christina Gerhardt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30482-6 (ISBN)

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"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York

"An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities."—Booklist, starred review

One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New Scientist

This immersive portal to islands around the world highlights the impacts of sea level rise and shimmers with hopeful solutions to combat it.

Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.

Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful, well-researched and lavishly designed, Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world's coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling, scientific expertise, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope—"We are not drowning! We are fighting!"—this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face.

Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org, The Nation, The Progressive, and the Washington Monthly.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD Bill McKibben

FOREWORDS
Hilda Heine, Marshall Islands / Dessima Williams, Grenada

INTRODUCTION Of Oceans and Islands

ARCTIC OCEAN

Greenland
Sarichef Island

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Lennox Island
Deal Island
Republic of Cabo Verde
Bissagos Islands
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe

INDIAN OCEAN AND PERSIAN GULF

Kingdom of Bahrain
Union of the Comoros
Republic of Mauritius
Republic of Seychelles
Republic of Maldives
Bhasan Char and Sandwip
Republic of Singapore

PACIFIC OCEAN

South China Sea Islands
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Guåhan
Republic of Palau
Federated States of Micronesia
Republic of Marshall Islands
Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Nauru
Republic of Vanuatu
Solomon Islands
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Republic of Fiji
Tuvalu
Tokelau
Independent State of Samoa
Niue
Cook Islands
Kingdom of Tonga

CARIBBEAN SEA AND GULF OF MEXICO

Bonaire
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Grenada
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Barbados
Saint Lucia
Martinique
Commonwealth of Dominica
Antigua and Barbuda
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Jamaica
Republic of Cuba
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Isle de Jean Charles

ANTARCTIC OCEAN

Pine Island

GLOSSARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MAP CITATIONS
WORKS CITED
CREDITS

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	11 figures, 38 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 229 mm
Gewicht	998 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30482-9 / 0520304829
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30482-6 / 9780520304826
Zustand	Neuware