- Brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India based on empirical research - Includes case studies from different geographic settings including urban environments, drylands and deltaic ecosystems - It highlights the deep differences between approaches from 'above' and 'below' in their understanding and experience of climate change and uncertainty and argues that diverse knowledge needs to be deployed to facilitate transformative and socially-just adaptation - Draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies to look at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology.