Climate Change Solutions and Environmental Migration

Taylor & Francis

Climate Change Solutions and Environmental MigrationThe Injustice of Maladaptation and the Gendered 'Silent Offset' Economy\nAuthor(s): Anna Ginty\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367490584, 978-0367490584\nSynopsis\nThis book lifts the taboo on maladaptation, a different driver of environmentally induced migration, which shines a light on the negative consequences arising from the solutions to climate change, adaptation and mitigation policies.\n\nThrough a systematic analysis and critique of existing mitigation and adaptation polices under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and international development community, and supplemented by a small empirical study in Indonesia, this book catalogues how maladaptation is manufactured under existing climate change solutions. It posits that customary communities in general- and women in particular- are disproportionately affected by the dom.