Climate change adaptation and development transforming paradigms and practices / [electronic resource] : edited by Tor Hakon Inderberg ... [et al.]. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xv, 295 p.) : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : development as usual is not enough / Siri Eriksen ... [et al.] -- 2. Building adaptive capacity in the informal settlements of Maputo : lessons for development from a resilience perspective / Jonathan Ensor ... [et al.] -- 3. The societal role of charcoal production in climate-change adaptation of the Arid and Semi-Arid lands (ASALs) of Kenya / Caroline A. Ochieng, Sirkku Juhola and Francis X. Johnson -- 4. Adaptive capacity : from coping to sustainable transformation / Christine Wamsler and Ebba Brink -- 5. Gender matters : adaptive capacities to climate variability and change in the Lake Victoria Basin / Sara Gabrielsson -- 6. Adaptation technologies as drivers of social development / Sara Trrup and Lars Christiansen -- 7. Multilevel governance and coproduction in urban flood-risk management : the case of Dar es Salaam / Trond Vedeld ... [et al.] -- 8. Can linking small- and large-scale farmers enhance adaptive capacity? Evidence from Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor / Jennifer West -- 9. Adaptation spinoffs from technological and socio-economic changes / Julie Wilk, Mattias Hjerpe and Birgitte Rydhagen -- 10. Sustainable adaptation under adverse development? Lessons from Ethiopia / Siri H. Eriksen and Andrei Marin -- 11. The role of local power relations in household vulnerability to climate change in Humla, Nepal / Sigrid Nagoda and Siri H. Eriksen -- 12. A socionature approach to adaptation : political transition, intersectionality, and climate change programmes in Nepal / Andrea J. Nightingale -- 13. Influencing policy and action on climate-change adaptation : strategic stakeholder engagement in the agricultural sector in Tanzania / Kassim Kulindwa and Baruani Mshale -- 14. Limited room for manoeuvre : indigenous peoples and climate-change adaptation strategies / Jakob Kronik and Jennifer Hays -- 15. Climate change and development : adaptation through transformation / Karen O'Brien ... [et al.].

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Climatic changes--Social aspects--Case studies.
Economic development--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
Sustainable development--Case studies.