Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

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Jem Bendell, Rupert Read
John Wiley & Sons, Jun 9, 2021 - Political Science - 224 pages

‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how professionals across different sectors are beginning to incorporate the acceptance of likely or unfolding societal breakdown into their work and lives. They do not assume that our current economic, social and political systems can be made resilient in the face of climate change but, instead, they demonstrate the caring and creative ways that people are responding to the most difficult realization with which humanity may ever have to come to terms.

Edited by the originator of the concept of deep adaptation, Jem Bendell, and a leading climate activist and strategist, Rupert Read, this book is the essential introduction to the concept, practice and emerging global movement of Deep Adaptation to climate chaos.
 

Selected pages

Contents

What Climate Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our Predicament
1984
A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
2002
Reasons for Anticipating Societal Collapse
Climate Psychology and its Relevance to Deep Adaptation
Coliberation from the Ideology
Mapping Common Responses to Climate Change
Enabling More Loving Conversations about
production
Natural allies
Leadership and Management in a Context of Deep Adaptation
List of Boxs
What Matters Most? Deep Education Conversations in a Climate of Change
The Future of Politics and Activism as We Face Potential
Relocalization as Deep Adaptation
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About the author (2021)

Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria and the originator of the Deep Adaptation movement.
Rupert Read is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, a Green Party campaigner and former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion.

Bibliographic information

TitleDeep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos
EditorsJem Bendell, Rupert Read
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2021
ISBN1509546855, 9781509546855
Length224 pages
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Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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