TY - JOUR
T1 - Network political ecology
T2 - Method and theory in climate change vulnerability and adaptation research
AU - Birkenholtz, Trevor
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Rutgers University's Climate and Environmental Change Initiative and the American Institute of Indian Studies' Senior Research Fellowship.
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - This paper argues for the development of 'network political ecology', drawing on the insights from regional political ecology and recent advancements in network theories of scale, to meet the challenges of investigating the meso-scale problem of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. 'Network political ecology', attentive to scale as socio-ecologically produced and grounded in a regional resource use system, is one such approach that fills this gap in middle-range theory necessary to understand the complex processes through which vulnerability manifests and adaptive capacity is produced. This method is exemplified through the case of groundwater-dependent irrigating farmers in Rajasthan, India.
AB - This paper argues for the development of 'network political ecology', drawing on the insights from regional political ecology and recent advancements in network theories of scale, to meet the challenges of investigating the meso-scale problem of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. 'Network political ecology', attentive to scale as socio-ecologically produced and grounded in a regional resource use system, is one such approach that fills this gap in middle-range theory necessary to understand the complex processes through which vulnerability manifests and adaptive capacity is produced. This method is exemplified through the case of groundwater-dependent irrigating farmers in Rajasthan, India.
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U2 - 10.1177/0309132511421532
DO - 10.1177/0309132511421532
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860913229
SN - 0309-1325
VL - 36
SP - 295
EP - 315
JO - Progress in Human Geography
JF - Progress in Human Geography
IS - 3
ER -
