The adaptive challenge of climate change /

This book presents a new perspective on adaptation to climate change. It considers climate change as more than a problem that can be addressed solely through technical expertise. Instead, it approaches climate change as an adaptive challenge that is fundamentally linked to beliefs, values and worldv...

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Other Authors: O'Brien, Karen L. (Editor), Selboe, Elin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Climate change as an adaptive challenge Karen O'Brien and Elin Selboe; 2. The intangibles of climate change adaptation: philosophy, ethics and values Bertrand Guillaume and Stijn Neuteleers; 3. Urban climate change policy transitions: views from New York City and London William Solecki, Lesley Patrick and Zoe Sprigings; 4. Planning for climate change adaptation in urban areas Jan Erling Klausen, Inger-Lise Saglie, Knut Bjorn Stokke and Marte Winswold; 5. The challenge of governing adaptation in Australia Steven Waller and Jon Barnett; 6. Emerging equity and justice concerns for climate change adaptation: a case study of New York State Peter Vancura and Robin Leichenko; 7. Transforming towards or away from sustainability? How conflicting interests and aspirations influence local adaptation Siri Eriksen and Elin Selboe; 8. Opportunistic adaptation: new discourses on oil, equity and environmental security Berit Kristoffersen; 9. Place attachment, identity and adaptation Tare Quinn, Irene Lorenzoni and W. Neil Adger; 10. Values and traditional practices in adaptation to climate change
  • evidence from a Q method study in two communities in Labrador, Canada Johanna Wolf, Ilana Allice and Trevor Bell; 11. Exploring vulnerability and adaptation narratives among fishers, farmers and municipal planners in Northern Norway Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer J. West and Halvor Dannevig; 12. Changes in organizational culture, changes in adaptive capacity? Examples from the Norwegian and Swedish electricity sectors Tor Hakon Inderberg; 13. From informant to actor to leader: social-ecological inventories as a catalyst for leadership development in participatory community climate change adaptation Bradley May; 14. Participation and learning for climate change adaptation: a case study of the Swedish forestry sector Asa Gerger Swartling, Oskar Wallgren, Richard J. T. Klein, Johanna Ulmanen and Maja Dahlin; 15. Integral GIS: widening the frame of reference for adaptation planning Lynn D. Rosentrater; 16. There must be more: communication to close the cultural divide Susanne C. Moser and Carol L. Berzonsky; 17. Social transformation: the real adaptive challenge Karen O'Brien and Elin Selboe.