This book is the first to provide a focused examination of climate change adaptation in rural regions of the global South. By employing an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the traditions of political economy and political ecology, it argues that current approaches to climate change adaptation need to engage more systematically with the variety of power relations that shape the social and ecological parameters of rural livelihoods. It examines the contested narratives and practices of climate change adaptation in a series of case studies relating to four different agrarian settings in Asia: namely, Pakistan, India and Mongolia.…mehr
This book is the first to provide a focused examination of climate change adaptation in rural regions of the global South. By employing an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the traditions of political economy and political ecology, it argues that current approaches to climate change adaptation need to engage more systematically with the variety of power relations that shape the social and ecological parameters of rural livelihoods. It examines the contested narratives and practices of climate change adaptation in a series of case studies relating to four different agrarian settings in Asia: namely, Pakistan, India and Mongolia.
Marcus Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies and School of Environmental Studies at Queen's University, Canada.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: The Critique of Climate Change Adaptation 1. Climate Change and the Frontiers of Political Ecology 2. Socialising Climate 3. Making a World of Adaptation 4. Power, Inequality and Relational Vulnerability 5. Climate, Capital and Agrarian Transformations 6. Pakistan - Historicising Adaptation in the Indus Watershed 7. India - Water, Debt and Distress in the Deccan Plateau 8. Mongolia - Pastorialists, Resilience and Nomadic Capital 9. Conclusion: Adapting to a World of Adaptation
Preface: The Critique of Climate Change Adaptation 1. Climate Change and the Frontiers of Political Ecology 2. Socialising Climate 3. Making a World of Adaptation 4. Power, Inequality and Relational Vulnerability 5. Climate, Capital and Agrarian Transformations 6. Pakistan - Historicising Adaptation in the Indus Watershed 7. India - Water, Debt and Distress in the Deccan Plateau 8. Mongolia - Pastorialists, Resilience and Nomadic Capital 9. Conclusion: Adapting to a World of Adaptation
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