Climate change poses multiple challenges to development. It affects lives and livelihoods, infrastructure and institutions, as well as beliefs, cultures and identities. This book presents case studies showing that climate change is as much a problem of development as for development, with many of the risks closely linked to past, present and future development pathways. Development policies and practices can play a key role in addressing climate change, but it is critical to question to what extent such actions and interventions reproduce, rather than address, the social and political structures and development pathways driving vulnerability.…mehr
Climate change poses multiple challenges to development. It affects lives and livelihoods, infrastructure and institutions, as well as beliefs, cultures and identities. This book presents case studies showing that climate change is as much a problem of development as for development, with many of the risks closely linked to past, present and future development pathways. Development policies and practices can play a key role in addressing climate change, but it is critical to question to what extent such actions and interventions reproduce, rather than address, the social and political structures and development pathways driving vulnerability.
Tor Håkon Inderberg is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the European Programme at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. Siri Eriksen is Associate Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. Karen O'Brien is a Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway. Linda Sygna is Co-Founder of cCHANGE - Transformation in a Changing climate, cchange.no.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Development as Usual is not Enough 2. Building Adaptive Capacity in the Informal Settlements of Maputo: Lessons for Development from a Resilience Perspective 3. The Societal Role of Charcoal Production in Climate Change Adaptation of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya 4. Adaptive Capacity: From coping to sustainable transformation 5. Gender Matters: Adaptive capacities to climate variability and change in the Lake Victoria Basin 6. Adaptation Technologies as Drivers of Social Development 7. Multilevel Governance and Coproduction in Urban Flood-risk Management: The case of Dar es Salaam 8. Can Linking Small- and Large-scale Farmers Enhance Adaptive Capacity? Evidence from Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor 9. Adaptation Spinoffs from Technological and Socio-economic Changes 10. Sustainable Adaptation under Adverse Development? Lessons from Ethiopia 11. The Role of Local Power Relations in the Vulnerability of Households to Climate Change in Humla, Nepal 12. A Socionature Approach to Adaptation: Political transition, intersectionality, and climate change programmes in Nepal 13. Influencing Policy and Action on Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic stakeholder engagement in the agricultural sector in Tanzania 14. Limited Room for Manoeuvre: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies 15. Adaptation to Climate Change through Transformation
1. Development as Usual is not Enough 2. Building Adaptive Capacity in the Informal Settlements of Maputo: Lessons for Development from a Resilience Perspective 3. The Societal Role of Charcoal Production in Climate Change Adaptation of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya 4. Adaptive Capacity: From coping to sustainable transformation 5. Gender Matters: Adaptive capacities to climate variability and change in the Lake Victoria Basin 6. Adaptation Technologies as Drivers of Social Development 7. Multilevel Governance and Coproduction in Urban Flood-risk Management: The case of Dar es Salaam 8. Can Linking Small- and Large-scale Farmers Enhance Adaptive Capacity? Evidence from Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor 9. Adaptation Spinoffs from Technological and Socio-economic Changes 10. Sustainable Adaptation under Adverse Development? Lessons from Ethiopia 11. The Role of Local Power Relations in the Vulnerability of Households to Climate Change in Humla, Nepal 12. A Socionature Approach to Adaptation: Political transition, intersectionality, and climate change programmes in Nepal 13. Influencing Policy and Action on Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic stakeholder engagement in the agricultural sector in Tanzania 14. Limited Room for Manoeuvre: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies 15. Adaptation to Climate Change through Transformation
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