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Threatening dystopias : the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh / Kasia Paprocki.
Series: Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environmentPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021Description: xiii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- 9781501759161
- 363.738 23
Contents:
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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.
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National Law School | Circulation Counter | 363.738 PAP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out Not For Loan | Recommended by Dr. Sudheesh R C | 18.05.2024 | 39466 |
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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