Editorial: Responding to climate change in contexts of urban poverty and informality

Dodman, David; Archer, Diane; Satterthwaite, David

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“…Urban informality also tends to encourage the phenomenon of informal settlements or slums, which host one‐seventh of the world's population. These areas suffer from the lack of decent sanitation services and facilities (Cohen, 2006) and their locations leave them highly exposed to climate‐related hazards (Dodman, Archer, & Satterthwaite, 2019).…”

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Is informality a barrier to sustainable development?

Özgür

Elgin

Elveren

2020

Sustainable Development

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In this article, using a novel, annual cross‐country panel dataset that covers 160 economies from 1950 to 2016, we examine the association between the size of the informal sector and various indicators of sustainable development. The range of indicators encompasses health‐related, economic, environmental, education, and social variables. Our results suggest that the size of the informal sector is negatively associated with GDP per capita, carbon dioxide emissions per capita, education, educational attainment, life expectancy, and access to safe drinking water, and positively related to female labor force participation rate, poverty rates, mortality rates, and air pollution. We also find that these empirical associations significantly interact with GDP per capita, indicating that the effect of larger informal sector size is stronger in less developed economies.

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Is informality a barrier to sustainable development?

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Elgin

Elveren

2020

Sustainable Development

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“…It will help evaluate people's understanding on global warming and its associated health implications which will aid in informing policies towards increasing public awareness and adaptation strategies for the global warming phenomenon. Additionally, it could aid in determining the general conception people have towards climate change health impacts, which is critical towards its mitigation [ 33 , 34 ].…”

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An Assessment of Public Knowledge and Potential Health Impacts of Global Warming in Ghana

Odonkor

Sallar

2020

BioMed Research International

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Global warming is a serious threat to human existence. The relatively higher level of global warming in recent times poses higher health risks to humans, both directly and indirectly. The aim of the study was to investigate public knowledge of global warming and its effects on human health. A nationally representative survey of Ghanaian adults ( N = 1130 ) was conducted from November 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019. Results show that 84.4% of the respondents understood the meaning of global warming. Respondents’ perceived causes of global warming include natural processes, deforestation, act of the gods, burning of fossil fuel, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from vehicles and industries. The majority of the respondents (83.4%) indicated that global warming has an impact on human health, while 8.5% indicated that it does not. Majority (78.6%) of the respondents are willing to support efforts to reduce the intensity of global warming. Television (19.1%) and social media (18.6%) were the leading preferred methods for receipt of global warming information. These findings provide useful insights for policy directions. The Government of Ghana and other stakeholders in health should develop a communication strategy to increase and sustain publicity and education of the citizenry on global warming.

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“…One of the key advantages of applying participatory modeling in climate change adaptation research is the ability to consider key variables at different spatial and organizational scales, making it particularly appropriate for climate change research (Williams et al 2019(Williams et al , 2020a. Furthermore, multistakeholder processes can raise the awareness of urban planners and environmental managers on the multifaceted and complex nature of risk to climate-induced environmental hazards that transcend spatial and organizational scales (Dodman et al 2019). Identifying key variables along with their relationships facilitates the development of abstractions representing the system under investigation, yielding an improved understanding of system behavior and feedback relationships, and of the perceived underlying structure of a system (Jordan et al 2018).…”

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Enhancing Autonomy for Climate Change Adaptation Using Participatory Modeling

Williams

2020

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Participatory modeling is commonly applied in climate change adaptation research to integrate stakeholder knowledge, beliefs, values, and norms into modeling processes. However, participation is not neutral, and current climate change adaptation research is tailored toward those with sufficient resources to adapt, as opposed to those most in need of adaptation. These are commonly marginalized stakeholder groups who remain on the social, economic, and political periphery, driving their vulnerability to climate change impacts. This paper presents the concept of autonomy in the context of multilevel governance for climate change adaptation before examining past participatory modeling approaches, illustrating the lack of application as an emancipatory tool for increasing the autonomy of marginalized stakeholder groups. Therefore, a list of 10 necessary conditions is presented for conducting participatory modeling for increasing the autonomy of marginalized stakeholder groups, strengthening multilevel governance for climate change adaptation. These theoretical foundations are intended to guide public policy and increase the societal impact of participatory modeling. Significance Statement Responding to climate change impacts requires the strengthening of multilevel governance. An important aspect is that multilevel governance is dependent on local actors having sufficient autonomy to carry out climate change adaptation actions. Participatory climate change adaptation research can contribute to enhancing autonomy for climate change adaptation in applying participatory modeling. This paper explains why this is important, how participatory modelers need to design their research, and in what way this could contribute to strengthening multilevel governance and the wider societal response to climate change impacts.If you’re a scholar who studies the social impacts of climate change and you aren’t somehow an activist what are you really?—Professor Kian Goh, University of California, Los Angeles

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Editorial: Responding to climate change in contexts of urban poverty and informality

Cited by 47 publications

References 7 publications

Is informality a barrier to sustainable development?

Is informality a barrier to sustainable development?

An Assessment of Public Knowledge and Potential Health Impacts of Global Warming in Ghana

Enhancing Autonomy for Climate Change Adaptation Using Participatory Modeling

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