The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. The book unpicks ideas about Climate Resilient Development as promoted by powerful development policy stakeholders such as the World Bank. It argues that the prescriptions are overwhelmingly technocratic and managerial, and consequently hamper dynamic processes and change.

This book critically discusses climate resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of...