1. The Trouble with Climate Change
2. Environment and Development in Pacific Islands
3. The History and Architecture of Climate Science
4. Pacific Science Initiatives
5. The Architecture of Climate Change Policy
6. Doing Climate Change in the Pacific
7. Investing in Uncertainty and Vulnerability
8. Discourses of Danger
9. Conclusions
Dr Jon Barnett has a PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Science from the Australian National University and is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Melbourne. John Campbell has a PhD in Geography from the University of Hawaii and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
'This is a courageous and provocative book. It challenges the
prevailing views and assumptions about the science and policy of
climate change. The focus is on Pacific small island states, but
the questions raised apply worldwide. This is a timely check on
established paradigms and their effectiveness (or otherwise) in
contributing to practical adaptation to climate change in
vulnerable regions.'
Barry Smit, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change,
University of Guelph, Canada 'Climate Change and Small Island
States is a timely and most welcome book. It shows the value of
using powerful social science insights to enrich what are often
bland and superficial accounts of climate change impacts. Barnett
and Campbell's book will contribute to the slowly growing critical
literature which challenges the climate change science-and-policy
orthodoxy, an orthodoxy which has narrowed our thinking and failed
our people. This book is about enabling and trusting the people to
take back control of their lives.'
Mike Hulme, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research 'This is a
fascinating book about small South Pacific islands and climate
change that takes care to highlight the differences between the
islands, gives agency to their residents, and shows the
significance of history and political economy. Using critical
perspectives on power and knowledge, the authors show how science
and other discursive formations have represented the vulnerability
of small island states and the ways in which these have overlooked
the nuances of local experience, structured international debate,
and limited the success of adaptation to date. The innovative
theoretical perspective gives the book considerable resonance
beyond the region.'
Diana Liverman, University of Arizona
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