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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 from empirical research and a systematic review of existing studies. The book also proposes two important contributions, which makes it distinctive. First, it gives a systematic review of the literature to capture the changing context and concept of risk, uncertainty, and maladaptation to climate change. Second, it uses case studies from around the globe to demonstrate the ways that communities have fostered to build resilience to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
There is a growing recognition that decision-makers often rely on intuitive thinking processes rather than undertaking a systematic analysis of options in a deliberative fashion. This latter approach requires accepting a plurality of narratives, embracing multiple disciplinary perspectives, and above all, integrating the appropriate disciplines that can help in finding better solutions. Thus, the book adds value to the existing knowledge on climate change adaptation, perception, and policy initiatives to address disaster risk reduction. It considers all these interconnected issues of risk, uncertainty, and maladaptation through a series of conceptual review- and evidence-based case studies to create new knowledge to address climate change adaptation and a resilient future. The book is a useful contribution to resilience scientists, policymakers, and practitioners from diverse disciplines.
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.
