Climate change adaptation: Is there a role for intervention research?

Serrao‐Neumann, Silvia; Giulio, Gabriela Marques Di; Ferreira, Lucilene; Choy, Darryl Charles Low

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2013.08.002

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“…], increasing social participation [Howarth et al. ], and improving local‐level adaptation to climate change [Serrao‐Neumann et al ]). In a health context, a social outcome of lower rates of smoking is motivated by a desired health outcome (Valente et al.…”

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Using social‐network research to improve outcomes in natural resource management

Groce

Farrelly

Jorgensen³

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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The conservation and management of natural resources operates in social-ecological systems in which resource users are embedded in social and environmental contexts that influence their management decisions. Characterizing social networks of resource users can be used to inform understanding of social influences on decision making, and social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a useful technique to explore these relationships. We synthesized how SNA has been used in 85 studies of natural resource management. We considered how social networks and social processes (e.g., interactions between individuals) influence each other and in turn influence social outcomes (e.g., decisions or actions) that affect environmental outcomes (e.g., improved condition). Descriptive methods were used in 58% of the studies to characterize social processes, and 42% of the studies compared multiple networks or multiple points in time to assess social or environmental outcomes. In 4 studies, authors assessed network interventions intended to affect social processes or environmental outcomes. The heterogeneity in case studies, methods, and analyses preclude general lessons. Thus, to structure and further learning about the role of social networks in achieving environmental outcomes, we created a typology that deconstructs social processes, social outcomes, and environmental outcomes into themes and options of social and ecological measures within each. We suggest shifts in research foci toward intervention studies to aid in understanding causality and inform the design of conservation initiatives. There is a need to develop clearer justification and guidance around the proliferation of network measures. The use of SNA in natural resource management is expanding rapidly; thus, now is the time for the conservation community to build a more rigorous evidence base to demonstrate the extent to which social networks can play a role in achieving desired social and environmental outcomes.

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Using social‐network research to improve outcomes in natural resource management

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Farrelly

Jorgensen³

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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“…Information helps households make rational decisions, and hence, is vital to ensure that adaptation is carried out in an adequate and timely manner (Stern, 2007). It plays a critical role in informing climate change adaptation as it provides both an improved understanding of the actual climate risks and response alternatives (Serrao-Neumann et al, 2013). Even early warning systems are usually way more than just alert systems.…”

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Governing climate change adaptation in the Ganges basin: assessing needs and capacities

Dulal

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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The Ganges basin shared by India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and China is the most heavily populated river basin in the world. It sustains approximately 500 million people. Even though people living in the basin have coped with and adapted to change in climate for centuries, they are finding it increasingly difficult, as both the frequency and magnitude of climate-induced extreme weather events have increased over the years. Both market and non-market impacts of climate change are increasing, and increasing, quite significantly. In 2007, floods resulting from monsoon rains killed over 2,000 people and displaced more than 20 million people in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. As traditional coping mechanisms are proving to be increasingly insufficient, improvement in climate change adaptation planning and practices in the basin is becoming increasingly urgent. This paper makes an attempt to assess the effectiveness of climate information system, infrastructure, and institutions, which are considered three important pillars of successful climate change adaptation. The needs and capacities of agencies and institutions to observe, collect, disseminate climate information products and early warning, and existing physical and institutional structures' robustness and flexibility in responding to climatic change and climate-induced extreme events are evaluated.

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“…In this paper, we consider why and how inclusion and responsiveness need to be sensitive to more 'local' understandings of vulnerability and need, drawing on research that explores such understandings in different cultural contexts, conducted in north east Brazil (Taddei 2011(Taddei , 2012, the north coast of São Paulo (Serrao-Neumann et al 2013;Di Giulio et al 2014), and England and Wales (Groves et al forthcoming), using a variety of qualitative methods, including narrative, biographical interviews, action research and intervention research. We are not implying that nations hold specific, nationwide sets of values that can be neatly defined and compared; nor are we saying that values across regions are also necessarily different in all cases, or that BRIC nations are necessarily similar or different from the UK or Europe.…”

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“…The addition of climate change, and the vulnerabilities it may create in such areas, as policy priorities only intensifies the resulting complexitySerrao-Neumann et al 2013;Di Giulio et al 2014).…”

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Communicating through vulnerability: knowledge politics, inclusion and responsiveness in responsible research and innovation

Giulio

Groves

Monteiro

et al. 2016

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has affirmed the value of 'inclusion' and 'responsiveness' as institutional virtues necessary to ensure that reflexivity towards the social priorities behind innovation processes is made possible. It is argued that this affirmation links RRI to knowledge politics in other domains (e.g. environmental justice and the politics of development). It is suggested that lessons regarding inclusion and responsiveness can be drawn from these domains, focusing on the ways in which marginalised perspectives on need and vulnerability, once articulated, can help reconstitute the public sphere in which social priorities are defined. Three case studies are used to explore how entanglements of needs, vulnerabilities, identity and agency are vital to understanding the impacts of innovation and change more generally. It is argued that social science methodologies sensitised to such entanglements are necessary to help constitute a space of inclusion and responsiveness characterised, not by assumptions about idealised rational forms of deliberation, but by styles of communication that recognise vulnerability. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Climate change adaptation: Is there a role for intervention research?

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Using social‐network research to improve outcomes in natural resource management

Using social‐network research to improve outcomes in natural resource management

Governing climate change adaptation in the Ganges basin: assessing needs and capacities

Communicating through vulnerability: knowledge politics, inclusion and responsiveness in responsible research and innovation

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