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Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Kasia Paprocki

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell series on landPublisher: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021Description: 1 online resource illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501759185
  • 1501759183
  • 1501759175
  • 9781501759178
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Threatening dystopiasDDC classification:
  • 363.738/74561095492 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903.2.B3
Online resources:
Contents:
"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
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
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Includes bibliographical references 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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