Climate-Resilient Development – Participatory Solutions from Developing Countries

Abstract

Climate-Resilient Development – Participatory Solutions from Developing Countries was published during a period in which progress in the international climate negotiations has nearly come to a complete stop. Therefore, the book appeared at the right time to inject some new ideas an energy into this complex process. It promotes the concept of a climate-resilient development (CRD) as an appropriate new way to break the deadlock in negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by promoting new bottom-up perspectives for approaching the multiple challenges. In recent years, the term ‘resilience’ has increasingly been used in scientific as well as political debates on climate change. This book takes a fairly broad view through its call for a general ‘transformational change’, and it includes both adaptation and mitigation issues. The ideas and frameworks for change outlined in the conceptual chapters are supported through empirical and theoretical case studies on various hierarchical levels, from the local to the international.