Confronting Climate Change in the Margins

The urgency of preparing for the effects of climate change is no longer in doubt and consequently political programmes worldwide are introducing measures to encourage adaptation and build resilience. However, the everyday strategies that people away from the centres are developing in order to prepare for and deal with climate change remain far less visible. These strategies have great potential because they are locally embedded and adapted to local logics, they are historically developed and thus tried and tested, and they are holistic in the sense that they address the multiplicity of entangled obstacles that extend beyond climate change. This article presents examples of local resilience strategies and offers an initial systematisation of their multidimensionality.Keywords: Climate Change; Local Resilience; Amazônia; Colombian Caribbean; Mozambique

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