The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States

by Julia Teebken

This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the United States, despite different political systems.

Focusing on the cases of Atlanta, USA, and Jinhua, China, Julia Teebken explores a set of path-dependent factors (lock-ins), which hamper the pursuit of climate adaptation by local governments to adequately address the root causes of vulnerability. Lock-ins help...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032024038
• ISBN13: 9781032024035
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"