A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation

Silja Klepp is a professor of geography at Kiel University, Germany. Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez is a researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Monterrey, Mexico.

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PART I Introduction

1. Governing climate change: The power of adaptation discourses, policies and practices

Silja Klepp and Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

PART II Conceptualizing Climate Change Adaptation

2. A clash of adaptations: How adaptation to climate change is translated in northern Tanzania

Sara de Wit

3. Rethinking the framing of climate change adaptation: Knowledge, power and politics

Daniel Morchain

PART III The political economy of Climate Change Adaptation

4. Climate change economies: Denaturalising adaptation and hydrocarbon economisation

Sophie Webber and Emilia Kennedy

5. Tourism, environmental damage and climate policy at the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico

Ignacio Rubio C.

6. Vulnerability factors among Cocopah fishermen: Climate change, fishery policies and the politics of water in the delta of the Colorado River

Alejandra Navarro-Smith

7. Ruling nature and indigenous communities: Renewed senses of community and contending politics of mitigation of climate change in the northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico

Salvador Aquino Centeno

8. Adapting in a carbon pool? Politicising climate change at Sumatra’s oil palm frontier

Jonas Hein and Yvonne Kunz

PART IV Local vs National vs Global Understandings of Climate Change Adaptation

9. Adapting in the borderlands: The legacy of neoliberal conservation on the Mexican-Guatemalan border

Celia Ruiz de la Oña Plaza

10. Climate change adaptation narratives in the Gulf of Mexico

Luz María Vázquez

11. Leaving the comfort zone: Regional governance in a German climate adaptation project

Heiko Garrelts, Johannes Herbeck, Michael Flitner

12. Re-configuring climate change adaptation policy: Indigenous peoples’ strategies and policies for managing environmental transformations in Colombia

Astrid Ulloa

PART V Beyond Critical Adaptation Research – Innovative Understandings of Climate Change Adaptation

13. Atlases of community change: Community collaborative-interactive projects in Russia and Canada

Susan A. Crate

14. Professionalising the ‘resilience’ sector in the Pacific Islands Region: Formal education for capacity building

Sarah Louise Hemstock, Helene Jacot Des Combes, Leigh-Anne Buliruarua, Kevin Maitava, Ruth Senikula, Roy Smith, Tess Martin

PART VI Conclusion

15. Conclusion: The politics in critical adaptation research

Sybille Bauriedl and Detlef Müller-Mahn