Developing adaptation and adapting development
By María Carmen Lemos, E. Boyd, E. Tompkins, H. Osbahr, D. Liverman. 2007
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Climate change is upon us. The fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly describes the evidence of a changing climate (IPCC 2007a,b). Although scientists disagree about the extent to which these changes will happen, they do agree that there have been and will be changes in average climatic conditions, there will be changes in the frequency and intensity of weather hazards, already variable climates will become less predictable, and there is considerable uncertainty about the distribution and impact of these changes. Actions to reduce the human contribution to the changing climate are slowly happening, but they so far seem too few and too limited to make a significant difference to the climate change scientists predict. What has become clear is that people from all countries, from all income levels, and irrespective of capacity to do so, will have to adapt to these changes. The development and climate research communities have much to learn from each other in helping people with these adaptations.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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- Linking smallholder farmer climate change adaptation decisions to development (2016, background): “In addition, planned adaptations need to avoid privileging technological interventions that are ill-fitted to local agricultural management practices, social relations, and institutions in order to succeed in the long run (Agrawal, 2009; Eriksen et al., 2011; Lemos et al., 2007).”
- Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil (2016, background): “lack of income, education, health, political power) that shape vulnerability (Eriksen and O’Brien, 2007; Burch and Robinson, 2007; Lemos et al., 2007).”
- Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries (2010, background): “Research addressing disasters and climate change suggests that effective vulnerability reduction requires going beyond current development efforts, adopting a two-tiered approach involving both direct action on reducing disaster risk and fundamental reform of economic and sociopolitical structures t”
- Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China (2013, background): “Climate dynamics affects rural communities through changes in both mean values of key climate variables and their variability (Lemos et al., 2007).”