Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nicolai; Brooks, Nick; Harding, Brian; Khatri, Dil; Lenaerts, Lutgart; Liverman, Diana; Mills‐Novoa, Megan; Mosberg, Marianne; Movik, Synne; Muok, Benard; Nightingale, Andrea J.; Ojha, Hemant; Sygna, Linda; Taylor, Marcus; Vogel, Coleen; West, Jennifer Joy

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383

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“…The role of climate change responses in driving risks is not limited to unintended consequences, though: a decision-maker might very consciously accept an increased risk elsewhere as long as a climate change response delivers a solution to that decision maker's core concern. Clearer understanding and recognition of different people, populations, and ecosystems being affected by different responses, 75 including disproportionate effects, can help us better understand and characterize such risk trade-offs and the values that underpin such choices. Lastly, non-human response can also be included, such as migration of species in response to temperature change.…”

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A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

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“…Evidence suggests that much of the current efforts to manage risks are exceedingly technical, too often ignoring the voices of the community and knowledges of the practitioners. In a recent paper based on the review of global practice, a group of scholars have argued that adaptation funding has inadvertently worsened vulnerability in the developing world (Eriksen et al., 2021). Two key reasons which the authors pinpoint are i) the practice of designing and implementing projects based on shallow understanding of the vulnerability context, and ii) the limited appreciation of local knowledge in defining the measures of adpatation success.…”

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Co‐creating knowledge, policy, and practice: A call to advance Water Policy Lab process

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2021

World Water Policy

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Numerous scientific reports have established that the water future of humanity and the entire earth system is at risk. Solving contested water problems require new ways of harnessing dialogues, reflections, empathy, research, and visions. Too often, water policies and practices tend to take shortcuts, missing out on the benefits these powerful social learning processes can bring towards water justice and sustainability. This editorial presents a Water Policy Lab approach to initiate dialogue among those who are concerned with this dual crisis—of escalating water insecurity and knowledge not being linked well to water policy and practice.

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“…Guided by the words of Puig de la Bellacasa (2010Bellacasa ( , 2011Bellacasa ( , 2017, I proposed a generative critique of development as care; as a strategy to overcome the impasse climate-informed development practices "from above" currently find themselves in. In fact, while their solutions for reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing capacities for adaptation and resilience are increasingly adopted around the world, we have enough evidence to suggest that these strategies have been unable to engender transformative action towards more just and liveable futures (Eriksen et al, 2021;Nightingale et al, 2020).…”

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Reimagining climate‐informed development: From “matters of fact” to “matters of care”

Tozzi

2021

Geographical Journal

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This paper is concerned with the impasse climate-informed development practices currently find themselves in. This is represented by the fact that while "solutions" to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance capacities for adaptation and resilience are increasingly adopted around the world, we have enough evidence to suggest that strategies adopted "from above" have been unable to engender transformations towards more just and liveable futures. Situating the paper within recent calls for a "post-adaptation" turn in the field, I propose a generative critique of climate-informed development through the lens of care as a place from where to begin thinking and practicing development differently. The aim of this critique is not to discard or discredit development practices as necessarily tainted or flawed but to make them accountable to a whole set of concerns and cares going into their stories of success or failures. Throughout the paper, I therefore speculatively ask the reader to think though the possibilities that may be opened when we stop treating climate-informed development projects as neutral and undisputable "matters of fact," engaging with them instead as necessary and non-innocent "matters of care." Thinking through a tryptic notion of "matters of care," as at the same time a neglected doing necessary for the sustenance of life, an affective state, and an ethico-politics, I look at examples from semi-arid areas of India to give visibility to those practices, relations, and emotions of care that have been marginalised by mainstream development circles. Through this shift in perception, a deeper understanding of vulnerability as a state of shared fragility emerges, one that grounds an ethico-politics of climate-informed development to concrete circumstances and becomes the foundation upon which more inclusive practices can be built upon. K E Y W O R D S climate change, development, India, matters of care, post-adaptation, vulnerability | INTRODUCTIONA climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together, and act differently. (World Bank, 2010, p. 10) Standing, as we are, at this very moment in history, it seems impossible to disagree about the urgency to rethink our development trajectory towards one that is more sustainable and liveable for future generations. Yet, behind such a

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Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

Cited by 350 publications

References 115 publications

A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

Co‐creating knowledge, policy, and practice: A call to advance Water Policy Lab process

Reimagining climate‐informed development: From “matters of fact” to “matters of care”

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