Abstract
This entry discusses the development of the anthropology of climate change and engaged climate anthropology as its inevitable derivative, given the gravity of anthropogenic climate change for humanity as a whole and for local populations, which have constituted the mainstay of anthropological research around the world. It focuses on three settings in which engaged climate anthropologists work: climate policy, communities impacted by climate change, and climate action groups and climate movements. Given the gravity of climate change, engaged climate anthropologists are urged to take part in a larger project, namely the anthropology of the future, which prompts us to be a part of a growing global effort to envision alternatives to the existing world system.
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