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UNISA996279363103316 |
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Titolo |
SSRR : 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : 23-27 October 2016 |
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New York : , : IEEE, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (407 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910970345303321 |
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Autore |
Pelling Mark <1967-, > |
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Titolo |
Adaptation to climate change : from resilience to transformation / / Mark Pelling |
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Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-134-02201-8 |
1-134-02202-6 |
1-282-95915-8 |
9786612959158 |
0-203-88904-5 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Acclimatization |
Climate change mitigation |
Climatic changes |
Human beings - Effect of climate on |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Part I Framework and theory; 1 The adaptation age; 2 Understanding adaptation; Part II The resilience-transition-transformation framework; 3 Adaptation as resilience: Social learning and self-organisation; 4 Adaptation as transition: Risk and governance; 5 Adaptation as transformation: Risk society, human security and the social contract; Part III Living with climate change; 6 Adaptation within organisations; 7 Adaptation as urban risk discourse and governance |
8 Adaptation as national political response to disasterPart IV Adapting with climate change; 9 Conclusion: adapting with climate change; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call |
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