Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor

By R. Kates. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Institutional change, climate risk, and rural vulnerability: Cases from Central Mexico (2005, background): “However, in recent years, the threat of climatic change has brought climatic vulnerability to the center of debates over sustainable development (Kates, 2000; Kates et al., 2001) and organizations such as the World Bank now place risk management as a core concern of social policy (Holzmann & Jorgens”
Climate change adaptation and development I (2010, background): “The report refl ects many of the themes emerging in the academic literature on vulnerability at the time (for example, Huq et al., 2002; Kates, 2000; Smit et al., 2000), including recommendations to support sustainable livelihoods, improve governance, and make institutions more accountable and parti”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, positive): “Studies of the costs to poor people of coping with the climate extremes of floods, droughts, and storms make clear the enormous costs and difficulty and the limited success (Kates, 2000).”
Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Zimbabwe: A Ricardian Approach (2007, background): “The effect of changes in climate on agricultural activities both physical and economic has been shown to be significant for low input farming systems, such as subsistence farming in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that are located in marginal areas and have the least capacity to adapt to ”
Climate Change, Agriculture And Poverty (2010, background): “(Kates 2000, 10) Several historical case studies discussed by (Fraser 2007) offer little for a pessimistic view of adaptation to climate change.”
Declining global per capita agricultural production and warming oceans threaten food security (2009, background): “Although global trade is important, we assume that regions with small agriculturally based economies today are unlikely to transform themselves into industrial nations without first improving their agricultural productivity (Kates 2000; Fafchamps 2004; Haggblade 2007).”
Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development (2011, background): “…income inequalities, with commentators highlighting the unequal distribution of the impacts of climate change and the resulting inequity and unfairness given that poor people globally have contributed least to the problem (Adger et al. 2006; Kates 2000; Tol et al. 2004; Tanner and Mitchell 2008).”
Adaptation and the poor: development, resilience and transition (2008, background): “…of natural and modified ecosystems caused by land-use change may increase the risk and severity of climate impacts, while (v) imports of subsidized food may out-compete local production and exacerbate domestic agricultural conditions (Kates, 2000; O’Brien and Leichenko, 2000; World Bank, 2007).”
Adaptation and development: Livelihoods and climate change in Subarnabad, Bangladesh (2009, background): “focused on the poorest individuals of the community, given that people in circumstances of poverty are widely considered to be those least able to cope with environmental stresses and in greatest need of adaptation (Kates, 2000; Huq et al., 2003; Yamin et al., 2005).”
Biological Diversity in Agriculture and Global Change (2010, background): “Many inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions of developing countries tend to be the most exposed and vulnerable to the combined social-environmental dynamics of global change (4, 5, 100, 102, 121, 123, 124, 126, 127).”
Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change (2007, background): “However, extreme events can act as an indicator in another sense: the ability of society to deal with extremes of climate, and climate variability in general, can be used to assess vulnerability to climate change ( Kates 2000 ).”
Adaptation to climate change in the developing world (2003, background): “Indeed it has been argued that both vulnerability and adaptation processes to climate change are likely to reinforce unequal economic structures (Kates, 2000).”