A critical approach to climate change adaptation: discourses, policies, and practices

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Drawing on examples from countries including Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Russia, Tanzania, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands, the chapters describe how adaptation measures are interpreted, transformed and implemented at grassroots level and how these measures are changing or interfering with power relations, legal pluralism and local (ecological) knowledge.

As a whole, the book challenges established perspectives of climate change adaptation by taking into account issues of cultural diversity, environmental justice and human rights, as well as feminist or intersectional approaches.