Uncertain Futures: Adapting Development to a Changing Climate

  • Jonathan Ensor
Practical Action Press: 2011. 128 pp. £14.95

Supporting development amid the uncertainties of climate change requires boosting the adaptation capacity of communities, to enable them to respond to changing weather patterns, while improving their lives and livelihoods. Uncertain Futures, by adaptation and development researcher Jonathan Ensor, asks what makes a community better able to adapt to climate change, and details practical interventions that help support vulnerable communities.

Migration and Climate Change

Edited by:
  • Étienne Piguet,
  • Antoine Pécoud &
  • Paul de Guchteneire
Cambridge Univ. Press: 2011. 464 pp. £19.99

Human migration is among the most talked about, but misunderstood, consequences of climate change. This book brings together experts from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, demography, law and political science, to provide an authoritative introduction to the topic. Empirical evidence, methodological challenges, conceptual gaps, policy responses and normative issues are all discussed and illustrated with case studies from around the world.