This review focuses on the role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change. It does so under the belief that climate impacts will affect disadvantaged social groups more disproportionately, and that local institutions centrally influence how different social groups gain access to and...

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the World Bank. The report contributes to a...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects -- Part I Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests -- 2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges -- 3. Struggles over...