Overview
- Examines key political themes and policy perspectives related to climate change adaptation
- Offers an informed primer on the politics of adaptation
- Reviews various political texts on adaptation
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This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Adaptation as a Phenomenon
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Adaptation as Politics
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Leigh Glover is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is the former Director of the Australasian Centre for the Governance & Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for
Societal Risk Research at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Senior Research
Fellow at the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) at Uppsala
University, Sweden. He is also Honorary Professor at the Centre for Urban
Research (CUR), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for
Societal Risk Research at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Senior Research
Fellow at the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) at Uppsala
University, Sweden. He is also Honorary Professor at the Centre for Urban
Research (CUR), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change
Authors: Leigh Glover, Mikael Granberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46205-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46204-8Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46207-9Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46205-5Published: 29 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Politics