This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation
within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology
framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there'that we adapt to. Instead, it is
part of the social and biophysical forces through which our lived environments are actively
yet unevenly produced. From this original foundation, the book challenges us to rethink the
concepts of climate change, vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity in transformed …

Given the relative dearth of critical research into the normative foundation of adaptation that
underpins national policies and the global climate regime, I The Political Ecology of Climate
Change Adaptation i is a much-needed advance in the fields of environmental politics and
political ecology. The first third of the book engages with the socially constructed separation
between climate and society-which Taylor links to the legacy of 19th century scientific
rationalism-in which climate (along with the entire natural environment), is seen as …