The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation

Benjamin K Sovacool Assoc, Bjorn-Ola Linner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2014 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-57724-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results.

Author Benjamin K. Sovacool: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Visiting Associate Professor at Vermont Law School, USA, where he manages the Energy Security and Justice Program at their Institute for Energy & the Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to renewable electricity generators and distributed generation, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. He is the author, editor, co-author, or co-editor of 13 books on energy security and climate change issues in addition to hundreds of peer-reviewed academic studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft
Schlagworte	Adaptation • Adaptive Capacity • climate change • climate change adaptation • Climate Policy • natural disaster • Political Ecology • Political Economy • Politics • Resilience • vulnerability
ISBN-10	1-349-57724-3 / 1349577243
ISBN-13	978-1-349-57724-8 / 9781349577248
Zustand	Neuware