The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Hardback
XV, 179 pages
978-3-030-46204-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.
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Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
XV, 179 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
373 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-46204-8 (9783030462048)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-46205-5
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Persons
Leigh Glover is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is the former Director of the Australasian Centre for the Governance & Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre forSocietal Risk Research at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) at UppsalaUniversity, Sweden. He is also Honorary Professor at the Centre for UrbanResearch (CUR), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre forSocietal Risk Research at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) at UppsalaUniversity, Sweden. He is also Honorary Professor at the Centre for UrbanResearch (CUR), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Content
Part 1: Adaptation as a Phenomenon.- Chapter 1: The politics of adapting to climate change.- Chapter 2: Climate change adaptation as an idea and a practice.- Chapter 3: Emerging political considerations in climate change adaptation.- Part 2: Adaptation as Politics.- Chapter 4: Adaptation politics in context: Governance and sustainability.- Chapter 5: Political themes in adaptation.- Chapter 6: Political analyses of adaptation.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusions.