TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paprocki,Kasia
TI  - Threatening dystopias: the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh 
T2  - Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment
SN  - 9781501759161
U1  - 363.738 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index; "Sluttish, careless, rotting abundance": prehistories of a climate dystopia -- Threatening dystopias: development and adaptation regimes -- Opportunity/crisis: knowledge production and the politics of uncertainty -- The social life of climate science: circulations of knowledge and uncertainty in development practice -- Autopsy of a village: agrarian change after the shrimp boom -- "We have come this far, we cannot retreat": adaptation, resistance, and competing visions of transformed futures -- Conclusion: climate justice and the politics of possibility
N2  - "The political ecology of climate change adaptation is shaped by longer histories of development and agrarian change. In coastal Bangladesh, competing visions of this history and of desirable development trajectories under climate change among practitioners, scientists, and local residents shape different possibilities for the future"--
ER  -