Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation

by Mark Pelling

Book Overview

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415477506
• ISBN13: 9780415477505
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"