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Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices de Tor Håkon Inderberg

Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices

Editat de Tor Håkon Inderberg, Siri Eriksen, Karen O'Brien, Linda Sygna
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2014
Climate change poses multiple challenges to development. It affects lives and livelihoods, infrastructure and institutions, as well as beliefs, cultures and identities. There is a growing recognition that the social dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation now need to move to the forefront of development policies and practices.
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. The chapters emphasise that adaptation is about much more than a set of projects or interventions to reduce specific impacts of climate change; it is about living with change while also transforming the processes that contribute to vulnerability in the first place.
This book will help students in the field of climate change and development to make sense of adaptation as a social process, and it will provide practitioners, policymakers and researchers working at the interface between climate change and development with useful insights for approaching adaptation as part of a larger transformation to sustainability.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138025967
ISBN-10: 1138025968
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 51
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"This book represents a substantial addition to the growing body of knowledge in the field of adaptation to the consequences of climate change. It does it not just by bringing together a series of analysis of specific adaptation challenges but also, and possibly much more valuable, by highlighting the need for transformation of the development process itself in pursuit of durable resilience. We are bound to hear more about this concept as the understanding of enabling conditions for adaptation becomes more transparent. It is an aspect of sustainability, in a warming world, that is both urgent and critical." –Walter Vergara, Former leader of the Global Expert Team On climate change adaptation at the World Bank and Former head of climate change at Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Senior Fellow World Resources Institute, USA
"Although everyone talks about the relationship between adaptation and development, very few initiatives – if any – take a radical enough approach for sustainable adaptation to happen. This book, edited by dedicated ambassadors of the message that transformational development is necessary, will have a profound impact on our understanding of these issues." –Lisa Schipper, Adaptation and Vulnerability Researcher and Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK
"This book is a first rate and stimulating contribution to the complex issue of climate change adaptation and development. It is an authoritative and meticulously researched treatise that contributes to critical understanding by unravelling the intertwined relationship between climate change adaptation and development. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in any aspect of climate change adaptation and development." –Youba Sokona, Special Advisor of Sustainable Development, South Centre, Switzerland, Co-Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III and Member of Future Earth Science Committee
"Climate change adaptation projects are expected to increase in numbers. There is a need for an inclusive approach, engaging with local communities, and paying attention to vulnerability aspects. Therefore, this book is highly recommended reading to all development and climate change policy-level stakeholders, financiers, and practitioners." –Heidi Hautala, Member of the Development Committee of the European Parliament and former Minister for International Development of Finland
"The old fault-lines of whether vulnerability is structural or technical emerge in the new challenges of adaptation. Dabbling at the edges is not enough. Take the concrete lessons in this book as your evidence for profound change-making that transforms our future." –Thomas E Downing, CEO, Oxford Centre for Innovation, UK

Descriere

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.