Read this book to be ahead of the curve and to be able to bend the curve. Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) is adaptation that works with, not against nature. It reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the same breath as it guards us against the impacts of those emissions.We are out of the safe zone
Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) helps us to transform our civilization to be in readiness for the future and makes life worth living.
Impacts beyond 1.5oC, the agreed maximum limit-target for global overheating, are already here. In this context, adaptation, preparedness and resilience-building are no longer optionalThey become central, pivotal to whether we survive, let alone flourish.
The struggle to define adaptation will be the defining struggle of the coming decade. TrAd is adaptation that works with, not against nature. It reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the same breath as it guards us against the impacts of those emissions.
This book sets out TrAd as a theory and a practice, a community and an attitudeCreating a flourishing future even in the jaws of adversity requires us first to imagine it together. Thrutopias are TrAd boldly and concretely imagined. Thrutopian stories show how we can get through by adapting to what is coming at us by transforming our systems. This book unpacks the theory of thrutopias and offers existing practical examples.
Transformative Adaptation is the quintessential idea whose time has come.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
112 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Permanent Publications |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2024-11-30 |
| ISBN |
9781856232258 |
