Approaching Climate Change Adaptation: Knowledge, Power, Communication: Volume 21.2 Cultural Analysis

The consequences of human-induced climate change are as diverse as the adaptation strategies people have started to develop. Approaches to climate change range from local initiatives to national and global programs and are embedded in various knowledge systems and partially contesting world views. This special issue aims to improve the understanding of those dynamics that are linked to knowledge, power, and communication when adapting to the diverse repercussions of climate change. The contributing authors focus in their ethnographic case studies on the producing, distributing, communicating, and contesting of knowledge in different geopolitical and social contexts, ranging from dealing with the spreading of algae on Mexican beaches to the increase of ticks in Finland, and from participatory energy practices in Italy to the unexpected results of climate change adaptation workshops in Vanuatu.