Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change Policy, Practice and Case Studies

This book focuses on integrated disaster risk reduction arising out of climate change and shows how communities build resilience through adaptive and transformative strategies at the local and global levels. It integrates disaster risk, uncertainty, and maladaptation to climate change with evidence...

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Other Authors: Sarkar, Anindita (Editor), Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (Editor), Singh, Shipra (Editor), Sachan, Ruchi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Contextualizing ‘Risk’, ‘Uncertainty’ and ‘Maladaptation’ in the context of Climate change
  • Chapter 2. Comforting Lies: Post Truth Politics, Authoritarianism and Climate Change Denial. Chapter 3. Managing risks in the agricultural sector facing climate change: insights from Morocco
  • Chapter 4. Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Reduction and Indigenous Knowledge-Based Resilience: A Case of Bonda Tribal Women in Odisha
  • Chapter 5. Reducing the Risks of Transboundary Climate Change Impacts in India and Bangladesh: Options for Cooperation
  • Chapter 6. On the importance of understanding uncertainties in glacier inventories for assessing climate change impacts: key takeaways from Baspa River Basin
  • Chapter 7. Peopling of the Sagar Island in the Indian Sundarbans: A case of maladaptation to climate change
  • Chapter 8. “Maladapted” public transport solutions: A Case of Amritsar in Punjab
  • Chapter 9. Mountains are calling, for help: an anthropological analysis of tourism induced maladaptation
  • Chapter 10. Exploring the potentials of community participation in landslide risk reduction: A case study of Dumsi Pakha in the district of Kalimpong, West Bengal
  • Chapter 11. Livelihoods of Farmers Vulnerable to Climate Change: Evidence from Drought Prone Regions of India
  • Chapter 12. Religion as a Means to Address Disaster Uncertainty: Case Study of Kullu and Mandi District, Himachal