Handbook on climate change vulnerability, environments and communities / edited by Fiona Miller (School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University), Krishna K. Shrestha (School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales) and Sarah Wright (School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Fiona, editor.

Shrestha, Krishna K., editor.

Wright, Sarah, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in energy, the environment and climate change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climate change mitigation--Decision-making.

Climate change mitigation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This thought-provoking Handbook explores the spatially and socially differentiated nature of climate change vulnerability. Expert authors discuss the ways that climate change vulnerability is materially and discursively produced as well as the agency, capacity and resilience of affected communities. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book features both leading and emerging international academics, offering diverse perspectives. Chapters delve into the conceptual origins and theoretical debates of climate change vulnerability, as well as existing and emerging responses to vulnerability in different environmental, cultural and social contexts. With a decolonising, Indigenous-led and justice-oriented approach, this innovative Handbook critically reflects on the concept of vulnerability, examining the disparities between the experiences of those of different gendered identities and social positions. Ultimately, this book provides insights into the navigation of communal futures in response to and beyond climate change vulnerability. Students and scholars of environmental sociology, development studies and human, environmental, social and cultural geography will greatly benefit from this Handbook's integrated perspective. It is also a vital resource for climate change researchers working in the social sciences, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on climate change vulnerability policies and programs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Imagining climate futures differently beyond vulnerability / Fiona Miller, Krishna K. Shrestha and Sarah Wright

Part I: Reconceptualising vulnerability

2. Agency and the capacity to adapt: Addressing gendered vulnerabilities to climate change / Nitya Rao

3. Affected by the weather, distracted by the climate: Towards an embodied epistemology of time / Yvonne Te Ruki-Rangi-o-Tangaroa Underhill-Sem

4. Climate change, migration and livelihoods: Responding to or reproducing vulnerability? / Ramesh Sunam, Dipak Bishwokarma and Kumar Darjee

5. Neoliberal vulnerabilization and subjectivities in Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe / Michael Mikulewicz and Karin Helwig

6. Three layers of vulnerability in climatic and environmental crises: The role of cultural caring practices / Siri Veland, Camilla Risvoll, Stine Bang Svendsen and Elisabeth Stubberud

Part II: Knowing and contesting vulnerability

7. Decolonising climate change adaptation: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand / Meg Parsons

8. Expanding the definition of 'vulnerability' through relational, respectful and accountable social science research in the context of climate change / Katy Davis, Melanie Flynn, Anuszka Mosurska, Angus Naylor, Ivan Villaverde Canosa and James D. Ford

9. Encountering climate vulnerability through narratives and places / Emily Potter and Donna Houston

10. Spatial vulnerability: Concept and application for decision-making in the changing climate / Garima Jain, Teja Malladi and Joseph Karanja

11. Vulnerability of agricultural communities to climate-related disasters in the coastal vietnamese mekong delta / Vo Quoc Thanh, Vo Thi Phuong Linh and Nguyen Hieu Trung

Part III: Responding to and resisting vulnerability

12. In search of justice: Social vulnerability, local disaster capitalism and responding to climate change / Krishna K. Shrestha, Jagannath Adhikari, Eileen Baldry, Hemant Ojha and Anthony Zwi

13. The role of indigenous fishers' knowledge and collective action in reducing

Vulnerability to climate change / Eranga K. Galappaththi

14. Ngo responses to climate change vulnerability in China / Fengshi Wu, Ju-Han Zoe Wang and Natalie W.M. Wong

15. Replicable and context-specific: How co-production of knowledge can build resilience from the bottom-up to face climate change risk / Roxana Bórquez, Marco Billi, Anahí Urquiza, Catalina Amigo and Rodrigo Fuster

Part IV: Futures

16. From climate vulnerability to climate justice: Resisting the inevitability of loss, insisting on reparative relations / Fiona Miller

17. Voyaging beyond vulnerability: Pacific narratives of climate change mobility / Christina Newport

18. From drought to dzud: Nomadic wayfinding in a changing climate / Navchaa Tugjamba and Greg Walkerden

19. Climate change is colonial (mis)management of country: Wildfires and indigenous cultural burning in Australia / Lauren Tynan and Jessica Riley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800882829 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.