Fairness and Adaptation to Climate Change

Citation

(2006), "Fairness and Adaptation to Climate Change", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 17 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2006.08317eae.003

Fairness and Adaptation to Climate Change

Fairness and Adaptation to Climate Change

Edited by Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq and MJ MaceMIT PressUSA, May 2006ISBN 0-262-51193-2US$ 25,00312 pp.

Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change is published by MIT Press and is the output of a Tyndall Centre research project and workshop. The book brings together scholars from political science, economics, law, human geography, and climate science to offer the first assessment of the social justice issues in adaptation to climate change.

The book outlines the philosophical underpinnings of different types of justice in relation to climate change, present inequities, and future burdens, and it applies these to real-world examples of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, and Hungary. It argues that the key to adapting to climate change lies in recognizing the equity and justice issues inherent in its causes and in human responses to it. For further information, see mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype = 2&tid = 10860