Climate change, relational vulnerability and human security: rethinking sustainable adaptation in agrarian environments

Taylor, Marcus

doi:10.1080/17565529.2013.830954

Cited by 111 publications

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“…'Knowledges' in its plural form signals how understandings of climate change and adaptation are based in more than just scientific knowledge (Hulme, 2010;Jasanoff, 2013;Mahony, 2014). By exploring the ability of actors' to assert one understanding over another (authority), and evaluating how knowledges combine and influence each other, we are able to show "on-the-ground" effects of knowledges and discourses (Goldman, 2011;Taylor, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation

Eriksen

Nightingale

Eakin

2015

Global Environmental Change

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation

Eriksen

Nightingale

Eakin

2015

Global Environmental Change

578

429

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“…First, power can be drawn from more economic (or material) attributes such as wealth or occupation. If one understands vulnerability in relational terms (Taylor, 2013), it becomes clear that the low vulnerability of some people can come at the expense of the high vulnerability of others, and that the adaptations of the former may, both in terms of their perceptions and effects, constitute maladaptations for the latter. Taylor (2014) provides a wealth of examples on how adaptation is, indeed, a vehicle for capital accumulation for agrarian elites who exercise power through patron-client relations with other community members due to their superior wealth and material status, in general.…”

Section: Understanding Intra-community Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicizing vulnerability and adaptation: on the need to democratize local responses to climate impacts in developing countries

Mikulewicz

2017

Climate and Development

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Since entering the global agenda in the mid-1990s, adaptation to climate change has moved from being considered a largely technical and environmental issue to one rooted in more social and economic circumstances of vulnerable populations. However, research into adaptation has been scarce in terms of analysing power and the politics that in conjunction with socio-economic factors often determine how people in local communities in the Global South respond to climate change. In light of these considerations, the aim of this paper is to contribute to the wider effort to politicize adaptation to climate change research and, as a result, democratize adaptation policy and practice. It is argued that any kind of social vulnerability to climate change is, in essence, political. Once understood as a political process, adaptation should be studied critically by interrogating the local power structures and the resulting political inequalities that determine people's ability to benefit from programmes and projects that aim to facilitate local adaptation. This is necessary if such interventions are to avoid benefitting some while leaving others, and particularly the poor and marginalized, behind. Democratization is seen as a process that must occur (1) between communities and interventions, and (2) within local communities, themselves. The paper concludes with reflections on how democratizing adaptation could function in theory and practice.

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“…During the 2010 floods, for example, there were numerous complaints in the Charsadda area of KP against landlords and government officials conspiring to divert floods away from the lands of rural elites and towards poor people and their properties. Such underlying social and political inequities and the limitations they put on women and men's lives and livelihoods contributes to increasing their vulnerability to hazards, leading ultimately to disaster (Taylor 2013).…”

Section: Understanding Root Causes Of Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%