01488cam a2200205 a 4500020002900000041000900029082001800038100003500056245006000091260005100151300002300202504006400225520082600289546001301115650004001128650003001168650001201198650001301210856005901223  a9780521517874 (hardback)  aeng.  a304.25bVLI-C1 aVliert, Evert van de.eauthor.10aClimate, affluence, and culture /cEvert Van de Vliert.  aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2009.  aix, 253p. bill. ;  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.  aEveryone, everyday, everywhere has to cope with climatic cold or heat to satisfy survival needs, using money. This point of departure led to a decade of innovative research on the basis of the tenet that climate and affluence influence each other's impact on culture. Evert Van de Vliert discovered survival cultures in poor countries with demanding cold or hot climates, self-expression cultures in rich countries with demanding cold or hot climates, and easygoing cultures in poor and rich countries with temperate climates. These findings have implications for the cultural consequences of global warming and local poverty. Climate protection and poverty reduction are used in combination to sketch four scenarios for shaping cultures, from which the world community has to make a principal and principled choice soon.  aEnglish. 0aHuman beingsxEffect of climate on. 0aEnvironmental psychology. 0aWealth. 0aCulture.41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0818/2008021908.html