ABSTRACT
Resilience is currently infusing the agenda in climate change and international development as in many other areas of policy, and is promoted by different governments, non-governmental organisations and think-tanks. Resilience clearly has policy traction, but it is also not without its critics, who highlight in particular the lack of consideration of agency and power in the way resilience is promoted as a normative concept. In many respects then, the concept is rapidly gaining salience in environmental and development policy and in research at the interface of natural and social sciences, despite a lack of rigorous theoretical and empirical grounding in social sciences. This chapter analyses these policy discourses of resilience and climate change within the context of international development.
