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Stepping up to the climate change: Opportunities in re‐conceptualising development futures
Author(s) -
Boyd Emily,
Juhola Sirkku
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1619
Subject(s) - futures contract , climate change , narrative , power (physics) , forcing (mathematics) , futures studies , face (sociological concept) , political science , balance (ability) , scale (ratio) , sociology , environmental ethics , economics , social science , geography , climatology , psychology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , financial economics , biology , geology
Climate change poses societal challenges on an unprecedented scale. It implies changes to North–South power balance and responsibility, forcing societies to begin to re‐conceptualise current development models and dominant narratives. This paper draws on the Climate Change and Development Futures: Shaping the Invisible panel held at the Development Studies Association 2008 Annual Conference titled Development's Invisible Hands . It reviews some of the relevant literature and analyses the opportunities and barriers that development and Development Studies face in re‐conceptualising development futures. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.