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Author Paprocki, Kasia author

Title Threatening dystopias : the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh / Kasia Paprocki
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Series Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment
Cornell series on land.
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
Analysis Climate change adaptation, Climate justice, Sea level rise in Bangladesh, Climate migration, Farmers and climate change, world's most vulnerable country to climate change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021)
Subject Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Bangladesh
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Bangladesh
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Bangladesh
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Bangladesh
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021011480
ISBN 9781501759185
1501759183
9781501759178
1501759175