Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10505163 Global Environmental Change 2012 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Multi-sited ethnography of climate change adaptation in Mozambique analyzes political and social responses to floods. ► Stakeholders politicise climate change adaptation according to their own interpretations and interest. ► Local people seek continuity by incorporatingadaptationin their lifestyles and institutional interests. ► Powerful people - economically, socially, politically-are more successful in appropriating adaptationthan the poor. ► This is alarming because disaster response aims to target the poor as primary beneficiaries.
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