ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how a socially informed and pluralist perspective on resilience can enhance understanding of societal responses to disturbances and shocks. It relates to current science and policy on climate change adaptation and development. This continues to build my case for a revisioning of resilience that can contribute to analysis of the dynamics of change in society, especially in context of global environmental change and development. So far I’ve looked at the framing of resilience, the discourses constructed around it in policy arenas, its meaning in different scientific fields, and its empirical experiences. I now focus more specifically on climate change adaptation and how it has become an important concern for international development. This chapter examines how a resilience perspective provides new insights for knowledge and policy, and supports more transformative responses to environmental change. In particular it reflects on current approaches to climate change adaptation and how a multi-faceted resilience lens brings insights into socially differentiated capacities to deal with change at multiple scales.
