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Political Themes in Adaptation

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This chapter describes and discusses the key themes in adaptation politics: Equity, decision-making, power, Nature, gender and commons management. A further section covers what are described as ‘implicit’ (or embodied) politics in two forms of adaptation, resilience (and its association with neoliberalism) and the politics in socio-ecological transformations. These themes constitute the elements that are commonly debated within the adaptation discourse over specific issues, places and processes. Opening the chapter is an identification of two cross-cutting themes: 1) Adaptation as an agent of power that distributes the costs and benefits of climate change impacts across the social and natural realms and 2) adaptation as a political process that both shapes, and is shaped by, the interests and representations of stakeholders (including the interests of the natural world).

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Glover, L., Granberg, M. (2020). Political Themes in Adaptation. In: The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46205-5_5

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