ISBN:
9780415477505
,
9780415477512
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 203 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Adaptation to Climate Change : From Resilience to Transformation
DDC:
304.2/5
Keywords:
Climatic changes
;
Acclimatization
;
Human beings Climatic factors
;
Climate change mitigation
;
Climate change mitigation
;
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Part I Framework and theory; 1 The adaptation age; 2 Understanding adaptation; Part II The resilience-transition-transformation framework; 3 Adaptation as resilience: Social learning and self-organisation; 4 Adaptation as transition: Risk and governance; 5 Adaptation as transformation: Risk society, human security and the social contract; Part III Living with climate change; 6 Adaptation within organisations; 7 Adaptation as urban risk discourse and governance
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Adaptation as national political response to disasterPart IV Adapting with climate change; 9 Conclusion: adapting with climate change; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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