1st Edition
Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change Prioritising Social Equity and Environmental Integrity
88 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
84 Pages
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Routledge
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This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability. Over $100 billion a year is pledged to help finance adaptation projects via the The Climate Adaptation Fund. These projects and their funding played a central role in the latest climate talks in... Read more
1. Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change 2. When Not Every Response to Climate Change is a Good One: Defining Criteria for Sustainable Adaptation 3. Sustainable Adaptation: An Oxymoron? 4. Converging and Conflicting Interests in Adaptation to Environmental Change in Central Vietnam 5. Sustainable Adaptation and Human Security: Interactions between Pastoral and Agropastoral Groups in Dryland Kenya 6. Gums and Resins: Challenges and Opportunities for Livelihood Diversification in Kenya's Drylands 7. The Discourse of Adaptation to Climate Change and the UK Climate Impact Programme: (De)scribing Conceptual Frames and Limits
Biography
Siri Eriksen is an Associate Professor of climate and development at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the University of Life Sciences, Norway.Katrina Brown is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
