The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change

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.

Examines key political themes and policy perspectives related to climate change adaptation Offers an informed primer on the politics of adaptation Reviews various political texts on adaptation

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.