Climate Change Adaptation

Traditional Wisdom and Cross-Scale Understanding

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Nalini Bikkina, Rama Mohana R. Turaga

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This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and provenances of resilience available to the local communities.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-21
Mått148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt353 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor151
Upplaga2024
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789819710751

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Nalini Bikkina is Professor at GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences. An ICSSR Doctoral Fellow, her research interests are in the interdisciplinary social sciences with an emphasis on public policy. She worked on projects funded by the UGC and the ICPR in her capacity as a Project Fellow. She was also the Principal Investigator in projects funded by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the SPARC Scheme of the Ministry of Education. She is a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. She won the Fulbright Alumni Award. Rama Mohana R. Turaga has been a faculty in the public systems group of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for more than 12 years, teaching environmental sustainability and public policy. After his Ph.D. in environmental policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Dr. Turaga was a research associate for more than two years at Dartmouth College, USA, working on research projects funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to his Ph.D., Dr. Turaga was an environmental management consultant working with industries and the government on projects related to environmental impact assessment and industrial pollution control.

1: Introduction.- 2: Learning Climate Change from Traditional Communities.- 3: Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change and People Centered Development.- 4: Farmer Knowledge and the Politics of Climate Resilience.- 5: Of Climate, Communities and Commons: A Gendered Perspective.- 6: Tribal Communities of the northern Eastern Ghats: Forest Dependence in the Context of Changing Climate.- 7: Forest Rights and Climate Change: Conservation through Indigenous Knowledge.- 8: Integrating De-carbonization with Adaptation Measures.- 9: Impact of Climate Change on Forest Dwelling Communities and the Role of Forest Department in Mitigation.- 10: Leveraging Human-Natural World Intersections for Climate Change Adaptation.- 11: Integrating Formal Science with Local Participation: The Case of Medmerry Peninsula.- 12: Climate Change Adaptation: A Thematic Analysis of Narratives of Fisher Folk and Tribal Farmers.