Climate adaptation from a poverty perspective

O’Brien, Geoff; O’Keefe, Phil; Meena, H.; Rose, Joanne; Wilson, Leanne

doi:10.3763/cpol.2007.0430.8.2.194

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“…Poverty alleviation is arguably the most important strategy to reduce the impacts of climate change on the poor. Poverty reduction would make the poor and otherwise marginalized less vulnerable and more resilient to many of the impacts of climate change identified earlier . Yet climate change and extreme weather could also reverse past poverty reduction achievements, and hinder future poverty alleviation efforts .…”

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“…Poverty reduction would make the poor and otherwise marginalized less vulnerable and more resilient to many of the impacts of climate change identified earlier. 4,64,65,[160][161][162] Yet climate change and extreme weather could also reverse past poverty reduction achievements, and hinder future poverty alleviation efforts. 47,143,163,164 In this section, we briefly consider how climate change may affect poverty alleviation efforts.…”

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Climate change and poverty: vulnerability, impacts, and alleviation strategies

Leichenko

Silva

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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Poverty is widely understood to be a key factor that increases the propensity for individuals and households to be harmed by climatic shocks and stresses. This review explores recent literature at the nexus of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and poverty. Within this literature, poverty is increasingly recognized as a dynamic and multidimensional condition that is shaped by the interplay of social, economic, political, and environmental processes, individual and community characteristics, and historical circumstances. While climate change is never seen as a sole cause of poverty, research has identified numerous direct and indirect channels through which climatic variability and change may exacerbate poverty, particularly in less developed countries and regions. Recent studies have also investigated the effects of climate change on economic growth and poverty levels, formation of poverty traps, and poverty alleviation efforts. These studies demonstrate that climate change‐poverty linkages are complex, multifaceted, and context‐specific. Priority issues for future work include greater attention to factors that promote resilience of poor populations, a stronger focus on nonmonetary dimensions of poverty, investigation of the impacts of climate change on relative poverty and inequality, and exploration of the poverty impacts of extreme climate change. This article is categorized under: Climate Economics > Economics and Climate Change Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development

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Climate change and poverty: vulnerability, impacts, and alleviation strategies

Leichenko

Silva

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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“…It should be noted that the varying availability of adaptation projects ready to be implemented 'on the ground' also adds to the factors which have hampered concrete adaptation progress in developing countries (see, for instance, Klein and Möhner, 2008). Moreover, it has been argued that rather than micro-economic project management, a broader macro-economic frame based on poverty alleviation is needed (O'Brien et al, 2008). From a macro perspective, the challenge is to establish synergies between development objectives and climate change adaptation and mitigation (Agrawala and van Aalst, 2008;Halsnaes et al, 2008).…”

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Does adequate financing exist for adaptation in developing countries?

Flåm

Skjærseth

2009

Climate Policy

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■ outlook: insight Irrespective of mitigation efforts, adaptation measures will be needed in most parts of the world. The greatest challenge will be for developing countries. The estimated needs for adaptation funding in developing countries are considered in the context of the status and 'delivery' of the current financing efforts made under the UN regime and the anticipated Adaptation Fund. A considerable gap exists between the actual (as well as projected) supply of funding and estimated adaptation needs. A number of alternative financial mechanisms are suggested to close the gap between estimated needs and actual delivery. Indépendamment des efforts de mitigation, des mesures d'adaptation seront nécessaires dans la plupart des parties du monde. Le plus grand défi sera pour les pays en développement. Les besoins en financement pour l'adaptation estimés pour les pays en développement sont examinés dans le contexte de l'état des efforts actuels en financement et leur « attribution » sous le régime des Nations Unies et leFonds pour l'Adaptation attendu. Il y a un écart important entre l'approvisionnement actuel (et anticipé) en fonds et le besoin estimé pour l'adaptation. Plusieurs mécanismes financiers possibles sont proposés pour combler l'écart entre les besoins estimés et l'attribution réelle.

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“…Those livelihoods that are already vulnerable are likely to be amongst those that are most vulnerable, and unable to adapt, to a highly variable and rapidly changing climate. A developing consensus argues that if adaptation to climate change is to be successful and sustainable, it should be mainstreamed into broader development policy and planning (Cannon and Muller-Mahn, 2011;Huq and Reid, 2004;Klein et al, 2007;O'Brien et al, 2008;Ayers and Dodman, 2010).…”

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“…The problem of adaptation is at root the problem of poverty. The problem of poverty cannot be disassociated from the structural causes of it (O'Brien et al, 2008;Cannon and Muller-Mahn, 2011).…”

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Changing Vulnerabilities in a Changing Climate: Farming Opportunity and Constraint in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

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This dissertation demonstrates that the vulnerability of households to both socioeconomic and environmental processes is found in unequal, differentiated ability to access the means of social production and reproduction. Place specific environmental and social factors co-produce specific manifestations of vulnerability, but the underlying causes and driving forces are to be found in the social formation and social relations of households in the case study area. The major finding of this dissertation is that changes in the social relations of production and reproduction are creating as much risk to livelihoods as climate change does, or is likely to do in the future. Vulnerability is not necessarily caused at all by a changing climate, rather it is found in the daily struggles over social production and reproduction. Most so called 'environmental sources of vulnerability' are not experienced equally, and their ultimate roots are found not in the 'natural' environment but in social relations. Household exposure and vulnerability to drought varied hugely over small distances, suggesting that environmental conditions do not affect all households equally. Vulnerabilities are experienced locally but are generated in socially scaled processes beyond household control.

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Climate adaptation from a poverty perspective

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Climate change and poverty: vulnerability, impacts, and alleviation strategies

Climate change and poverty: vulnerability, impacts, and alleviation strategies

Does adequate financing exist for adaptation in developing countries?

Changing Vulnerabilities in a Changing Climate: Farming Opportunity and Constraint in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

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