Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique
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Highlights
► Multi-sited ethnography of climate change adaptation in Mozambique analyzes political and social responses to floods. ► Stakeholders politicise climate change adaptation according to their own interpretations and interest. ► Local people seek continuity by incorporatingadaptationin their lifestyles and institutional interests. ► Powerful people - economically, socially, politically–are more successful in appropriating adaptationthan the poor. ► This is alarming because disaster response aims to target the poor as primary beneficiaries.
Keywords
Climate change adaptation
Multi-sited ethnography
Mozambique
Floods
Evacuation
Resettlement
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