Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change: Policy, Practice and Case Studies

In: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices

Abstract

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.