Adaptation to Climate Change: Resilience, Transition and Transformation

The first edition of this book made a case for adaptation to be seen as part of development, a logic which is now widely accepted in academia and with many practical applications.The frontline in the relationship between adaptation and development has shifted and is now less about vision and more about policy context and practical action.Fully updated and revised in its second edition, Adaptation to Climate Change argues that policy and practice on adaptation must address soical justice.Without this, we risk drifting into a better adapted but more unequal world.This book argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations.This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in p