A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities

Maru, Yiheyis; Smith, Mark S.; Sparrow, Ashley D.; Pinho, Patrícia; Dube, Opha Pauline

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.12.007

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“…The vast academic and policy debate [(Maru et al, 2014; UN Development Programme (UNDP), 2014; Quinlan et al, 2015)] focuses squarely on resilience-building while questions on the need for weakening resilience are touched by a few authors only (Nyström et al, 2012;Graham et al, 2013). Thus, in a recent book on resilience, the need for governance structures to weaken feedbacks that trap SES in undesired regimes is mentioned only as an aside (Biggs et al, 2015, p. 256).…”

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Breaking Resilience for a Sustainable Future: Thoughts for the Anthropocene

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Strong resilience of a system usually enables the protection of a status quo. Most resilience studies assume that resilience-building is the central objective of sustainability work. Even though transformation has become a central theme in development and social-ecological debates, questions surrounding the weakening resilience of undesired system states are rarely analyzed. We suggest that resilience studies not only serve to protect systems and feedbacks we want to maintain, but may also help to understand and overcome chronic, undesirable,-and thus wicked-resilience. This contribution focuses on reef fisheries in the Spermonde Island Archipelago in Indonesia, based on social and ecological studies between 2004 and 2016. We identify a number of interlocking wickedly resilient vicious cycles as predominant drivers of the impoverishment of fishing households and the overexploited, polluted and degraded state of the coral reefs that fishers' livelihoods depend on. We argue that, more often than not in the Anthropocene, breaking resilience has a central role in the pursuit of sustainable human-nature relations. Therefore, the link between the resilience and the transformation debates needs to be much more explicitly made. Breaking interlocking, wicked resilience at multiple levels is needed to move toward sustainable human-nature relations from the local to the global level. There are lacunae in debate, literature, and research practice as to when, where and how wicked resilience might need to be weakened. A more complete resilience lens is particularly needed under Anthropocene conditions to support the unmaking of chronically resilient, anthropogenic systems.

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“…Climatic shocks can compromise food security by disrupting food access or affecting the natural resource base for local livelihoods (Maru et al 2014). Moreover, floods and droughts can exacerbate chronic food insecurity and malnutrition in developing world contexts, especially among marginalized groups such as the urban poor (Ericksen 2008).…”

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“…Moreover, floods and droughts can exacerbate chronic food insecurity and malnutrition in developing world contexts, especially among marginalized groups such as the urban poor (Ericksen 2008). The climatefood security literature is largely focused on food production (Ericksen 2008), yet a shock might instead disrupt the poor's access (Devereux and Berge 2000) to safe, affordable, and nutritious food by affecting income (O'Brien 2006) or transportation networks, food storage, or market dynamics (Maru et al 2014). We therefore attempt to advance social vulnerability analysis by adding an extra dimension to Adger's (2006) framework: food system sensitivity.…”

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“…Overall, vulnerability science offers only limited insights into how urban vulnerability might vary spatially (see Cutter, Ash, and Emrich 2016) and even fewer as to why. This is an important shortcoming because, for example, marginalized remote rural communities are highly vulnerable to climate change (Maru et al 2014) and this might also be true for remote urban centers. The unclear spatial basis of urban vulnerability to climatic shocks is also important because understanding difference is vital for enabling local-level climate change adaptation (Satterthwaite, Dodman, and Bicknell 2009) and humanitarian intervention during disasters.…”

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Social Vulnerability to Climatic Shocks Is Shaped by Urban Accessibility

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“…They posit that remote areas are resilient to climate change and are mostly the first to properly equip themselves towards adaptation; and secondly by virtue of their location, they are disadvantaged and remain the most vulnerable to climate change (Maru et al, 2014). The two statements are related in the sense that once the people are in remote areas, and not easily reached by so-called external interveners, they are compelled to develop their internal adaptive capacity to respond to climate change.…”

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Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change: Influencing Factors in North-western Ghana

Fielmua¹,

Dugle²,

Mwingyine³

2017

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Climate change has attracted the attention of all stakeholders, ranging from individuals in the household through to global organisations in the international community. As an inevitable phenomenon at the moment, adaptation is the key response to minimising the unfavourable effects of climate change. While there are several adaptation strategies, rural areas mostly use migration as an ultimate and most reliable option. Rural migration in Ghana is mostly from the north to the south. This paper examines the factors that influence individuals and households' decision to use migration as an adaptation strategy to climate change effects in North-western Ghana. Data was collected using household questionnaire in four communities and analysed using statistical package for social science, version 20.0. The study established that although there are other reasons for migration, it is used essentially as an adaptation strategy to the effects of climate change on livelihood. The study concludes that the debate on climate change and migration should no longer be whether climate change causes human migration but how the effects of climate change influence migrants' resolve to migrate as an adaptation strategy. Such an analysis allows policy makers to find practical adaptive capacity measures that can offset the challenges at the original homes of migrants.

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A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities

Cited by 270 publications

References 70 publications

Breaking Resilience for a Sustainable Future: Thoughts for the Anthropocene

Breaking Resilience for a Sustainable Future: Thoughts for the Anthropocene

Social Vulnerability to Climatic Shocks Is Shaped by Urban Accessibility

Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change: Influencing Factors in North-western Ghana

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