Authors
Benjamin P Warner, Christopher P Kuzdas
Publication date
2017/12/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
29
Pages
69-74
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- We review the influence of political economy on transformative adaptation research.
- Transformative adaptation research may reinforce economic hegemony.
- Research should analyze structures of production, trade, and labor organization.
- People's agency must be incorporated into transformative adaptation programs.
We show how transformative adaptation research can reproduce existing political-economic structures and processes. We review research on transformative adaptation to illustrate the need for a systematic understanding of the role of political-economic structures and processes in transformative adaptation. We argue that it is necessary for two reasons. First, we must be cognizant of the relationship between economic hegemony and efforts to understand and initiate transformative adaptation. We show that transformative adaptation should consider this economic backdrop because it may …
Scholar articles
BP Warner, CP Kuzdas - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2017