Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks

Oliver, Tom H.; Bazaanah, Prosper; Costa, José Lino; Deka, Nabajyoti; Dornelles, André Zuanazzi; Greenwell, Matthew P.; Nagarajan, Magesh; Narasimhan, Kavin Preethi; Obuobie, Emmanuel; Osei, Marian Amoakowaah; Gilbert, Nigel

doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01712-6

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“…The work takes a diversity of forms, including planting trees in communities to reduce the heat island effect, 2 limit stormwater runoff, 3 and absorb carbon, as well as helping rebuild communities after natural disasters. The (Oliver et al, 2023).…”

Section: Cultivate Resiliencementioning

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How sociology can help us save ourselves

Fisher

2024

Sociological Forum

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This article is derived from my 2024 ESS presidential address. I discuss my new book and how a sociological lens helps us to understand the process through which we can save ourselves from the climate crisis. After explaining why the state and the market have struggled to implement sufficient policies to address the climate crisis, I present the AnthroShift as a theory that explains how social actors reorient after risk pivots to open windows of opportunity for social change. I discuss why civil society is most likely to mobilize after there is a generalized sense of climate risk and summarize how climate activists are currently engaging in non‐violent civil disobedience as a first step in an expanded civil society sector that is likely to put pressure on the state and the market to help us save ourselves. I conclude by presenting three steps that can be taken to help us save ourselves from the climate crisis.

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Section: Cultivate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

How sociology can help us save ourselves

Fisher

2024

Sociological Forum

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“…Chavez-Miguel et al, 2022;Hellin et al, 2018;Lo¨hr et al, 2021) have shown how bottom-up collective action for resource management can contribute to the formation of community capabilities and the strengthening of social cohesion, both crucial to EPB (Johnson et al, 2021). However, EPB theory recognises that a lack of local capacities towards facilitating climate adaptation that targets structural and institutional drivers of conflict is a significant barrier for collective action (Hachmann et al, 2023;Oliver et al, 2023). In this study, participants in settings characterised by low social cohesion recognised an additional challenge in fostering collective action, an observation that has been reported elsewhere (Akter, 2020;Surtiari et al, 2017).…”

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Community voices on climate, peace and security: A social learning approach to programming environmental peacebuilding

Medina,

Ensor,

Schapendonk

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Environment and Security

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Approaches to operationalising the linkages between climate, peace and security are increasingly demanded by international organisations. Yet, there is a limited understanding of what effective programming practices that address climate-related security risks entail. Critical voices argue that programme designs often rely on analyses that ignore structural and cultural realities on the ground, leading to technocratic understandings of risks, and prescriptions for action that do not relate to people’s experiences, perceptions and values. Advised by social learning theory, this study developed and evaluated a participatory appraisal method to guide the design of environmental peacebuilding programming strategies meant to address climate-related security risks. The method was evaluated across nine rural locations in Kenya, Senegal and Guatemala, involving 221 participants. Based on a critical evaluation of the method, opportunities and challenges for the use of social learning approaches to advise environmental peacebuilding programming are discussed. Results indicate that appraisal processes of collective reflection can support jointly articulated and context-relevant understandings of climate-related security risks. This shared knowledge can then support local communities in the design of climate adaptation strategies that potentially contribute to sustainable peacebuilding. Settings characterised by low political legitimacy and the unwillingness of conflictive actors to engage in dialogue are identified as barriers for the development of feasible programming strategies.

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Empowering women in sustainable agriculture

Fertő,

Bojnec

2024

Sci Rep

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The agricultural and rural development policy seeks to facilitate the transition towards environmentally sustainable and climate-neutral agricultural practices, with a focus on human capital, knowledge, and innovation. Gender equality can play a significant role in promoting environmentally sustainable practices in the agricultural sector, particularly through the adoption and implementation of agri-environment-climate schemes (AECS) in the context of farm, agricultural, and rural development. We examine the presence of gender bias in the adoption intensity of AECS by utilising farm-level data from Slovenia. We find that women on Slovenian farms engage in the adoption of AECS and receive subsidies, despite the presence of a gender gap in various agricultural factor endowment variables that typically favour men. The results of this study provide evidence in favour of promoting greater involvement and empowerment of women in the fields of green technology applications and green entrepreneurship, particularly with AECS practices.

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Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks

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How sociology can help us save ourselves

How sociology can help us save ourselves

Community voices on climate, peace and security: A social learning approach to programming environmental peacebuilding

Empowering women in sustainable agriculture

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