Uncertain Futures: Adapting Development to a Changing Climate (Paperback or Softback)

Ensor, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1853397202 / ISBN 13: 9781853397202

Published by Practical Action Publishing 3/1/2011, 2011

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Uncertain Futures: Adapting Development to a Changing Climate.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncertain Futures: Adapting Development to a Changing Climate (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing 3/1/2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853397202
• ISBN 13: 9781853397202
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.6 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Community-based adaptation is a new concept whose meaning is still to be fully understood. Most agree that communities should be supported to respond to the challenges they face, and some see this as the goal of community-based adaptation. By contrast, Uncertain Futures proposes that community-based adaptation must also address inevitable future uncertainty by supporting the ongoing ability to change. In this view, attention is focused on adaptive capacity, through which communities are able to make changes to their lives and livelihoods in response to emerging environmental change. Uncertain Futures argues that as greenhouse gas emissions continue to accumulate, a ‘business as usual’ approach to development practice is increasingly inadequate and the importance of securing adaptive capacity becomes more urgent. Uncertain Futures examines this challenge, and invites readers to rethink development policy and practice in terms of how adaptive capacity can be best supported. This book should be read by the staff of donor agencies, policy makers, NGO practitioners, academics and students of development studies and the environment.

About the Author

Jonathan Ensor is a Researcher for Practical Action working on the relationship between climate change and international development.