Title: Adaptation to climate change : from resilience to transformation /
Authors: Pelling, Mark, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Climatic changes; Climate change mitigation; Human beings Effect of climate on; Acclimatization
Contents: Framework and theory -- The adaptation age -- Adapting to climate change -- Understanding adaptation -- An adaptation lexicon -- The antecedents of adaptation -- Adaptation as a contemporary development concern -- Three visions of adaptation, resilience, transition and transformation -- The resilience-transition-transformation framework -- Adaptation as resilience, social learning and self organisation -- Adaptation as transition, risk society, human security and the social contract -- Living with climate change -- Adaptation within organisations -- Adaptation as urban risk discourse and governance -- Adapting with climate change -- Adapting with climate change.