Prof. Petra Tschakert, lead author of a new UN report, explains that climate change adaptation can undermine sustainable development Story Transcript DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting from Montreal, Canada for The Real News. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently circulated a draft for expert and government review of a special […]
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Petra Tschakert is a Centenary Professor of Rural Development at the University of Western Australia in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. She trained as a human-environment geographer with background in arid lands resources sciences and applied anthropology, working mainly on climate change adaptation, social and environmental justice, inequalities, and rural livelihoods and livelihood security in a development context.