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As the 21st century settles in, an array of tightly intertwined migratory, social,
economic, financial, political, and ecological unrest has brought to the fore
the restrictive adaptability of contemporary political arenas, institutions,
development models, and policy instruments, inviting us to interpret and to
address the causes underlying these upheavals (Ferrão 2016; Kolb 2010; Castles
2004; Smith and Wiest 2012) and attempt to mitigate their negative impacts
(Akyüz 2014). Beyond that looms an unpredictable regime of climate change
that may permanently undermine the Planet’s habitability (O’Brien 2014).
We appear to have reached what is today conceptually identified as the
Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002; Barry and Maslin 2016; Steffen et al. 2011),
interpreted as Earth’s newest epoch in which humankind has turned into a
collective geochemical force profoundly altering the planet’s natural cycles
(Biermann et al. 2015). Rickards (2015) and Ferrão (2017) argue that the
Anthropocene provides an opportunity, however, not only to produce new
thinking, but also to bring about new actions in the field of sustainability. In
line with the latter, a rising call for structural change that catalyzes societal
transformations toward sustainability has appeared concurrently with – or
seemingly as a result of – the predominant neo-liberal capitalist, productivityand
growth-led hegemonic worldview (McMichael 2010). Among the reasons
underlying this call are that continued and distributed economic growth
can no longer be taken for granted (Krugman 2014), that growth endangers
socio-ecological sustainability, and that there exists increasing awareness
and wariness of its limits (Rydin 2013; Eastin et al. 2011). Alarmingly, the
mainstream understanding of sustainability underpinning contemporary
development politics and policies is still to openly embrace and exploit the
discussion and experimentation of non-growth-dependent development
solutions (Bina 2013; Martinez Alier 2009).
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Keywords
Sustainability ClimAdaPT.Local
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Mourato, J., Schmidt, L., Ferrão, J., Bussler, A. (2018). Reframing adaptation to climate change in Portugal: the case of ClimAdaPT. Local.In Delicado, A., Domingos, N., Sousa, L. de (Eds.), Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 3. The diverse worlds of sustainability, pp. 153-177. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
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Imprensa de Ciências Sociais