Mark Pelling

Adaptation to Climate Change

From Resilience to Transformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 organizations 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780415477505
• ISBN-10: 0415477506
• Artikelnr.: 31387533

Autorenporträt

Mark Pelling is Reader in Geography at King's College London and before this at the University of Liverpool and University of Guyana. His research and teaching focus on human vulnerability and adaptation to natural hazards and climate change. He has served as a lead author with the IPCC and as a consultant for UNDP, DFID and UN-HABITAT.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Framework and Theory 1. Intellectual and Policy Context 2.
Understanding Adaptation Part 2: The Resilience-Transition-Transformation
Framework 3. Adaptation as Resilience: Social Learning and
Self-Organization 4. Adaptation as Transition: Risk and Governance 5.
Adaptation as Transformation: Risk Society, Human Security and the Social
Contract Part 3: Living with Climate Change 6. Adaptation Within
Organizations 7. Adaptation as Urban Risk Discourse and Governance 8.
Adaptation as National Political Response to Disaster Part 4: Adapting with
Climate Change 9. Conclusion: Adapting with Climate Change