From Resilience to Transformation:the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Pelling, Mark¹ 

关键词: adaptive cycle;    climate change;    disaster management;    Mexico;    power;    resilience;    transformation;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-04038-160211

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Climate change is but one expression of the internal contradictions of capitalism that include also economic inequality and political alienation. Seen in this way analysis of human responses to climate change must engage with social relations of power. We explore the potential for resilience theory to meet this challenge by applying a framework that integrates the adaptive cycle heuristic and structuration theory to place power at the heart of the analysis and question the transformational qualities of social systems facing climate change. This theoretical frame is applied to Mahahual and Playa del Carmen, two rapidly expanding towns on Mexico

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