The political ecology of climate change adaptation : livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development /

"This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that we adapt to. Instead, it is part of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Marcus (Marcus Edward)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Subjects:
Political ecology.
Climatic changes.
Political ecology > Pakistan.
Political ecology > India.
Political ecology > Mongolia.
Climatic changes > Pakistan.
Climatic changes > India.
Climatic changes > Mongolia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : the critique of climate change adaptation
  • Climate change and the frontiers of political ecology
  • Socialising climate
  • Making a world of adaptation
  • Power, inequality and relational vulnerability
  • Climate, capital and agrarian transformations
  • Pakistan : historicising adaptation in the Indus watershed
  • India : water, debt and distress in the Deccan Plateau
  • Mongolia : pastoralists, resilience and nomadic capital
  • Conclusion : adapting to a world of adaptation.

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