Mots-clés
Adaptation ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Financement ; Ile ; Kiribati ; Niveau marin ; Pacifique ; Performativité ; Risque ; VulnérabilitéAdaptation ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Financing ; Island ; Kiribati ; Pacific Region ; Performativity ; Risk ; Sea level ; VulnerabilityAdaptación ; Cambio climático ; Clima ; Financiamiento ; Isla ; Nivel del mar ; Región Pacífica ; Riesgo ; VulnerabilidadPerformative vulnerability : climate change adaptation policies and financing in Kiribati
Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)
WEBBER, S.
Dept. of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Description :
This paper explores the perverse effects of climate change adaptation policies and financing in the Republic of Kiribati, a low-lying island nation in the Central Pacific. It examines how encounters between financiers and government officials might produce vulnerability to climate change. By discussing several instances where Government of Kiribati elites are required to enact vulnerability in order to secure climate change adaptation financing, it demonstrates that such encounters are performative. It concludes that vulnerability is not a latent condition, but, rather, an emergent effect of an assemblage of facts, expert actors, and objects.
Type de document :
Article de périodique
Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2013, vol. 45, n°. 11, p. 2717-2733, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.
Date :
2013
Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion
Langue :
Anglais
Anglais
Droits :
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