The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 3/1/2018
EAN 9781108454759, ISBN10: 1108454755

Paperback, 345 pages, 25.6 x 18 x 2 cm
Language: English

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 worldviews, as well as to power, politics, identities and interests. Drawing on case studies from high-income countries, the book argues that it is time to consider adaptation to climate change as a challenge of social, personal and political transformations. The authors represent a variety of fields and perspectives, illustrating the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the problem. The book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers and advanced students in the environmental sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as to decision makers and practitioners interested in new ideas about adapting to climate change.

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 Bjørn 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 HÃ¥kon 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 Ã…sa 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.