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Adaptation to Climate Change - From Resilience to Transformation (Hardcover, New)
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Adaptation to Climate Change - From Resilience to Transformation (Hardcover, New)
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The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how
to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In
this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly
defensive task -- protecting core assets or functions from the
risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees
climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as
natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation
to Climate Change argues that without care, adaptive actions can
deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for
significant change in social and political relations if human
vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced.
This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of
choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability),
transition (incremental social change and the exercising of
existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes
in political regimes). The resilience-transition-transformation
framework is supported by three detailed case study chapters. These
also illustrate the diversity of contexts where adaption is
unfolding, from organisations to urban governance and the national
polity. This text is the first comprehensive analysis of the social
dimensions to climate change adaptation. Clearly written in an
engaging style, it provides detailed theoretical and empirical
chapters and serves as an invaluable reference for undergraduate
and postgraduate students interested in climate change, geography
and development studies.
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