Climate change and adaptive innovation : a model for social work practice /
Sunil D. Santha.
- 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations.
- Indigenous and environmental social work series .
- Indigenous and environmental social work series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Stories from the field -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Locating climate change adaptation -- 3. The landscape of adaptive innovation -- 4. Ethical adaptation to climate change -- 5. Adaptive innovation phases -- 6. Methods of inquiry and practice -- 7. Actor interface analysis and reflective practice -- 8. Concluding reflections -- Glossary -- Index
"This book explores multiple and iterative pathways of adapting to climate change and its impacts. Climate Change and Adaptive Innovation introduces an adaptive innovation model that has its premise on core values of justice, care and solidarity"--
Sunil D. Santha is presently working at the Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work, TISS, India. He has associated with natural resource dependent communities for several years. As an expert in Environmental Social Work, supplemented by his interests in Sociology of Knowledge and Systems Thinking, he has keen interests in the field of environmental risks, climate justice and sustainable development. He believes in action research and reflective practice as creative pathways to design participatory models of social innovation and emergent livelihoods.