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Author Paprocki, Kasia, author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment
Cornell series on land.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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Subject Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Bangladesh.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Bangladesh.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Bangladesh.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Bangladesh.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Paprocki, Kasia Threatening dystopias Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501759154 (DLC) 2021011479 (OCoLC)1245344196
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