Climate Change Solutions and Environmental Migration: The Injustice of Maladaptation and the Gendered 'Silent Offset' Economy

This book explores the negative consequences of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies on customary communities, particularly women, and proposes environmental reintegration as a solution. It highlights the injustice of maladaptation and presents possibilities for a new post-neoliberal conjuncture.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 182 pages
\n Publication date: 21 April 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This book delves into the taboo topic of maladaptation, a distinct driver of environmentally induced migration, shedding light on the detrimental consequences arising from climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. Through a comprehensive analysis and critical evaluation of existing mitigation and adaptation strategies under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the international development community, complemented by a small empirical study in Indonesia, this book catalogs how maladaptation is perpetuated under current climate change solutions. It argues that customary communities, particularly women, are disproportionately affected by the dominant market-driven logics that underpin the UNFCCC's adopted climate change solutions. The injustice of maladaptation is explored through a multi-faceted lens, encompassing political, economic, social, and ecological perspectives. Additionally, the concept of environmental reintegration is explored as a potential remedy to this issue. In the Afterword, further possibilities are presented, envisioning what the new (post-neoliberalism) conjuncture could potentially entail.

This volume holds immense appeal to students, scholars, practitioners, environmental policy experts, environmental migration and displacement researchers, development studies scholars, I/NGOs, and civil society actors and activists, broadly. It provides valuable insights into the complex dynamics of climate change, adaptation, and mitigation, contributing to a more informed and effective response to the challenges posed by environmental change.

\n Weight: 432g\n
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367490584\n \n