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What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change?

This publication is part of a book which explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies.

Thomas E. Downing, Richard J. T. Klein / Published on 15 September 2010
Citation

Patt, A., D. Reckien, R.J.T. Klein, T.E. Downing, et al. (2010). What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change?. M. Hulme and H. Neufeldt (eds.) Making climate change work for us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 370-388.

The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us.

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Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J. T. Klein

Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Senior Research Fellow

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