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Climate change adaptation and development : transforming paradigms and practices /

"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 o...

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Other Authors: Inderberg, Tor Håkon,Ed, Eriksen, Siri, Ed, O'Brien, Karen, Ed, Sygna, Linda,Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Routledge, 2015.
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Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=q0eLBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Climate+change+adaptation+and+development&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Climate%20change%20adaptation%20and%20development&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Development as usual is not enough / Siri Eriksen, Tor Håkon Inderberg, Karen O'Brien and Linda Sygna
  • Building adaptive capacity in the informal settlements of Maputo : lessons for development from a resilience perspective / Jon Ensor, Emily Boyd, Sirrku Juhola, and Castan Broto
  • The societal role of charcoal production in climate change adaptation of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya / Caroline Ochieng, Sirkku Juhola, and Francis X. Johnson
  • Adaptive capacity : From coping to sustainable transformation / Christine Wamsler and Ebba Brink
  • Gender matters : adaptive capacities to climate variability and change in the Lake Victoria Basin / Sara Gabrielsson
  • Adaptation technologies as drivers of social development / Sara Trærup and Lars Christiansen
  • Multilevel governance and coproduction in urban flood-risk management : The case of Dar es Salaam / Trond Vedeld, Wilbard Kombe, Clara Kweka Msale, and Siri Bjerkreim Hellevik
  • Can linking small- and large-scale farmers enhance adaptive capacity? : Evidence from Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor / Jennifer West
  • Adaptation spinoffs from technological and socio-economic changes / Julie Wilk, Mattias Hjerpe and Birgitte Rydhagen
  • Sustainable adaptation under adverse development? : Lessons from Ethiopia / Siri H. Eriksen and Andrei Marin
  • The role of local power relations in the vulnerability of households to climate change in Humla, Nepal / Sigrid Nagoda and Siri H. Eriksen
  • A socionature approach to adaptation : political transition, intersectionality, and climate change programmes in Nepal / Andrea Nightingale
  • Influencing policy and action on climate change adaptation : strategic stakeholder engagement in the agricultural sector in Tanzania / Kassim Kulindwa and Baruani Mshale
  • Limited room for manoeuvre : Indigenous peoples and climate change adaptation strategies / Jacob Kronik and Jennifer Hays
  • Adaptation to climate change through transformation / Karen O'Brien, Siri Eriksen, Tor Håkon Inderberg and Linda Sygna.