1st Edition

Adaptation to Climate Change From Resilience to Transformation

By Mark Pelling Copyright 2011
224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural... Read more

Part 1: Framework and Theory  1. Intellectual and Policy Context  2. Understanding Adaptation  Part 2: The Resilience-Transition-Transformation Framework  3. Adaptation as Resilience: Social Learning and Self-Organization  4. Adaptation as Transition: Risk and Governance  5. Adaptation as Transformation: Risk Society, Human Security and the Social Contract  Part 3: Living with Climate Change  6. Adaptation Within Organizations  7. Adaptation as Urban Risk Discourse and Governance  8. Adaptation as National Political Response to Disaster  Part 4: Adapting with Climate Change  9. Conclusion: Adapting with Climate Change

Biography

Mark Pelling is Reader in Geography at King’s College London and before this at the University of Liverpool and University of Guyana. His research and teaching focus on human vulnerability and adaptation to natural hazards and climate change. He has served as a lead author with the IPCC and as a consultant for UNDP, DFID and UN-HABITAT.