A critical approach to climate change adaptation: discourses, policies and practices / edited By Silja Klepp, Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 288-301

List of Figures.. List of Tables.. List of Contributors.. Part I Introduction.. 1. Governing climate change: The power of adaptation discourses, policies and practices.. Part II Conceptualizing Climate Change Adaptation.. 2. A clash of adaptations: How adaptation to climate change is translated in northern Tanzania.. 3. Rethinking the framing of climate change adaptation: Knowledge, power and politics.. Part III The political economy of Climate Change Adaptation.. 4. Climate change economies: Denaturalising adaptation and hydrocarbon economisation.. 5. Tourism, environmental damage and climate policy at the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico.. 6. Vulnerability factors among Cocopah fishermen: Climate change, fishery policies and the politics of water in the delta of the Colorado River.. 7. Ruling nature and indigenous communities: Renewed senses of community and contending politics of mitigation of climate change in the northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico.. 8. Adapting in a carbon pool? Politicising climate change at Sumatra’s oil palm frontier.. Part IV Local vs National vs Global Understandings of Climate Change Adaptation.. 9. Adapting in the borderlands: The legacy of neoliberal conservation on the Mexican-Guatemalan border.. 10. Climate change adaptation narratives in the Gulf of Mexico.. 11. Leaving the comfort zone: Regional governance in a German climate adaptation project.. 12. Re-configuring climate change adaptation policy: Indigenous peoples’ strategies and policies for managing environmental transformations in Colombia.. Part V Beyond Critical Adaptation Research – Innovative Understandings of Climate Change Adaptation.. 13. Atlases of community change: Community collaborative-interactive projects in Russia and Canada.. 14. Professionalising the ‘resilience’ sector in the Pacific Islands Region: Formal education for capacity building.. Part VI Conclusion.. 15. Conclusion: The politics in critical adaptation research

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Drawing on examples from countries including Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Russia, Tanzania, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands, the chapters describe how adaptation measures are interpreted, transformed, and implemented at grassroots level and how these measures are changing or interfering with power relations, legal pluralismm and local (ecological) knowledge. As a whole, the book challenges established perspectives of climate change adaptation by taking into account issues of cultural diversity, environmental justicem and human rights, as well as feminist or intersectional approaches. This innovative approach allows for analyses of the new configurations of knowledge and power that are evolving in the name of climate change adaptation. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental law and policy, and environmental sociology, and to policymakers and practitioners working in the field of climate change adaptation. eng