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Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation: Conceptual Reflections and African Examples

verfasst von : Irit Eguavoen, Karsten Schulz, Sara de Wit, Florian Weisser, Detlef Müller-Mahn

Erschienen in: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This chapter supports the argument that social science research should focus on adaptation to climate change as a social and political process, by analyzing the politics and interests of actors in climate change adaptation arenas and by acknowledging the active role of those people who are expected to adapt. Most conventional climate research depoliticizes vulnerability and adaptation by removing dominant global economic and policy conditions from the discussion. Social science disciplines, if given appropriate weight in multidisciplinary projects, contribute important analyses by relying on established concepts from political science, human geography, and social anthropology. This chapter explains relevant disciplinary concepts (climate change adaptation arena, governance, politics, perception, mental models, culture, weather discourses, risk, blame, traveling ideas) and relates them to each other to facilitate the use of a common terminology and conceptual framework for research in a developmental context.

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Titel: Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation: Conceptual Reflections and African Examples
verfasst von: Irit Eguavoen
Karsten Schulz
Sara de Wit
Florian Weisser
Detlef Müller-Mahn
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-38669-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-38670-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_82

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