Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change: Prioritising Social Equity and Environmental Integrity

ISBN-13: 9781849714136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 90 str.

Siri Eriksen

Opis

Sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability. This book examines how adaptation to climate change interacts with social and environmental sustainability.

Spis treści

1. Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change  2. When Not Every Response to Climate Change is a Good One: Defining Criteria for Sustainable Adaptation  3. Sustainable Adaptation: An Oxymoron?  4. Converging and Conflicting Interests in Adaptation to Environmental Change in Central Vietnam  5. Sustainable Adaptation and Human Security: Interactions between Pastoral and Agropastoral Groups in Dryland Kenya  6. Gums and Resins: Challenges and Opportunities for Livelihood Diversification in Kenya's Drylands  7. The Discourse of Adaptation to Climate Change and the UK Climate Impact Programme: (De)scribing Conceptual Frames and Limits