1st Edition

Climate Change Solutions and Environmental Migration The Injustice of Maladaptation and the Gendered 'Silent Offset' Economy

By Anna Ginty Copyright 2021
190 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book lifts the taboo on maladaptation, a different driver of environmentally induced migration, which shines a light on the negative consequences arising from the solutions to climate change, adaptation and mitigation policies. Through a systematic analysis and critique of existing mitigation and adaptation polices under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)... Read more

1. Conceptualising Key Terms and their Links: Maladaptation, Adaptation, Mitigation, Environmental Migration, Gender and Justice

2. Methodology: Critical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues

3. Adaptation, Development, Maladaptation: Theory and Practice

4. Mitigation and the Kyoto CDM: Manufacturing Maladaptation

5. ‘Silent Offsets’ and Feminist Perspectives on Women, Climate Change, UN-REDD+: Adapting to Women

6. Findings of Indonesian Study

7. Where are the Women?

8. Justice in the Age of the Anthropocene: Reintegration as the Fourth Dimension of Justice and the Injustice of Maladaptation.

Afterword: A Questioning Moment – A Conjunctural Crisis Manifest in the Extinction Rebellion?

Biography

Anna Ginty is an Industrial Advisor and Advocate for one of Australia’s largest trade unions in Sydney, Australia as well as a Visiting Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney.