Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh / Kasia Paprocki.

Author/creator Paprocki, Kasia author.
Format Electronic
PublicationIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date©2021
Description1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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SeriesCornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment
Cornell series on land. ^A1457915
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
Abstract "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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageIn English.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021).
Issued in other formPrint version: Paprocki, Kasia Threatening dystopias Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501759154
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021011480
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ISBN9781501759178 electronic book
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Standard identifier# 10.1515/9781501759178
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