Klepp, Silja and Chavez-Rodriguez, L., eds. (2018) A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies, and Practices. . Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research . Routledge, London/New York, 280 pp.

Abstract

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Drawing on examples from countries including Germany, Mexico, the USA and Indonesia, the chapters describe how adaptation measures are interpreted, transformed and implemented at grassroots level and how these measures are changing or interfering with power relations, legal pluralism and local (ecological) knowledge. As a whole, the book challenges established perspectives of climate change adaptation by taking into account issues of cultural diversity, environmental justice and human rights, as well as feminist or intersectional approaches. This innovative approach allows for analyses of the new configurations of knowledge and power that are evolving in the name of climate change adaptation.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental law and policy, and environmental sociology.

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