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Economics of Vulnerability: Infrastructures of Climate Change Adaptation in the Rupununi, Guyana.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economics of Vulnerability: Infrastructures of Climate Change Adaptation in the Rupununi, Guyana./
Author:	Saleh, Thomas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-06.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28150817
ISBN:	9798698554479

Economics of Vulnerability: Infrastructures of Climate Change Adaptation in the Rupununi, Guyana.
Saleh, Thomas.

Economics of Vulnerability: Infrastructures of Climate Change Adaptation in the Rupununi, Guyana. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 172 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis examines the recent emergence of "vulnerability to climate change" as a framework for development in rural Guyana. More specifically, I study experts' use of the term "vulnerability" throughout the implementation of four recent water infrastructure projects on Indigenous lands in the Rupununi savannah bordering Brazil. The research draws on scholarly analyses of Guyanese postcolonial governance in conjunction with maps, semi-structured interviews, and secondary economic and climatological data. With this evidence, I demonstrate that each project approaches "vulnerability" as a justification for imposing technocratic governance through infrastructure. Examining the planning process more closely, I further find that Guyana's push for climate change adaptation is marketized, granting decision-making power to funders and contractors over "beneficiaries". Thus, the new infrastructures in the Rupununi reproduce many of the historical patterns of power originally responsible for the region's present vulnerabilities. The thesis concludes by discussing alternate approaches to addressing climate change in Guyana.

ISBN: 9798698554479Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Climate change adaptation

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