Exploring Development Futures in a Changing Climate: Frontiers for Development Policy and Practice

Boyd, Emily; Grist, Natasha; Juhola, Sirkku; Nelson, Valerie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00464.x

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“…Incorporating climate change into existing policy has therefore become a pressing priority. However, identifying the particular modes and means by which governments, donors and NGOs may 'climate-proof' future policies and investments is still poorly understood (Klein et al, 2007;UNDP, 2008;Boyd et al, 2009;Brooks et al, 2009;World Bank, 2010).…”

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“…There is now a growing consensus that climate change poses serious threats to existing development policies and investments in a wide variety of policy fields, including health, agriculture and insurance (Klein et al, 2007;Boyd et al, 2009;Brooks et al, 2009;Lavell et al, 2012). Incorporating climate change into existing policy has therefore become a pressing priority.…”

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“…Developing policies that can reduce poverty and vulnerability to climate change is a pressing global priority (Klein et al, 2007;Boyd et al, 2009;Brooks et al, 2009;Prowse et al, 2009;IPCC, 2012). This Special Issue of Development Policy Review explores the role that SP can play in this process.…”

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Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice

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“…African rural populations depend on climate-sensitive agro-ecosystems, rain-fed agriculture, and stock management but suffer from poor governance, insufficient safety nets, and poor educational progress (Boko et al 2007;Vogel et al 2007); therefore, they are influenced not only by climate change itself but also by persistent poverty and the lack of public services and technologies to mitigate the impacts (Downing et al 2001;Adger 2006;Boyd et al 2009;Antwi-Agyei et al 2011). Enhancing rural population resilience (i.e., the capacity to adapt to change) requires strategies that engage with "a broader agenda concerning how to enable poor and vulnerable people to move out of poverty and vulnerability" (Sabates-Wheeler et al 2008).…”

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Developing a Community-Based Resilience Assessment Model with reference to Northern Ghana

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Faced with adversarial climatic and physical conditions and an inept socioeconomic development priorities, Northern Ghana remains one of the regions that are most vulnerable to climate-related shocks and disturbances in semi-arid Africa. Because of the effect of frequent floods, droughts, and bushfires, entire livelihoods in Ghana's predominantly smallholder agricultural population are under threat. In this paper, we present a model for community-based resilience assessment. This model was developed through an experiment conducted in selected rural communities in the Tolon and Wa West Districts in the Northern and Upper West Regions of Ghana. This experiment underpinned an ongoing five-year collaborative research project, Climate and Ecosystem Change Adaptation and Resilience Research in Semi-Arid Africa: AnIntegrated Approach (CECAR-Africa), and involved researchers and scientists from institutions in Ghana and Japan. Drawing on the findings from extensive literature review, field surveys, focus group discussions, unstructured interviews with various stakeholders, and participatory observations, we developed a matrix for assessing the different categories of community 1 United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan 2 University for Development Studies, Wa and Tamale, Ghana. 3 University of Ghana, Department of Geography and Resource Development, Legon, Accra, Ghana 4 United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resource in Africa (UNU-INRA), Accra, Ghana 5 Ghana Meteorological Agency, Accra, Ghana. 6 The University of Tokyo, Todai Institute for Advanced Study, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), Tokyo, Japan. resilience (ecological, engineering, and socioeconomic). The outcome of this resilience matrix, herein called an "integrated" assessment model, offers a mix of factors that could improve societal reorganization when faced with shocks or disturbances. The integrated model provides a workable assessment criteria and key indicators for community level resilience assessments. This experiment proved valuable and highly effective in selecting case study communities for CECAR-Africa. The next step will involve the testing and development of similar criteria and indicators to measure household level resilience.

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“…To a much greater extent, this perspective showcases the role of non-climatic socioeconomic factors (O'Brien et al 2004;Reid and Vogel 2006;Tschakert 2007;Westerhoff and Smit 2009;Ziervogel and Taylor 2008). Reducing contextual vulnerability, therefore, emphasizes existing vulnerabilities and reducing them through addressing the underlying processes and factors that determine exposure, sensitivity, and most importantly, adaptive capacity (Schipper 2007;Boyd et al 2009;Jones and Boyd 2011).…”

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Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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The framework for the new scenarios being developed for climate research calls for the development of a set of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which are meant to differ in terms of their challenges to mitigation and challenges to adaptation. In order for the scenario process to fulfill its goals, the research and policy communities need to develop a shared understanding of these concepts. This paper focuses on challenges to adaptation. We begin by situating this new concept in the context of the rich literatures related to inter alia adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. We argue that a proper characterization of challenges to adaptation requires a rich, exploration of the concept, which goes beyond mere description. This has a number of implications for the operationalization of the concept in the basic and extended versions of the SSPs. First, the elements comprising challenges to adaptation must include a wide range of socioeconomic and even some (non-climatic) biophysical factors. Second, careful consideration must be given to differences in these factors across scales, as well as cross-scale interactions. Third, any representation of the concept will require both quantitative and qualitative elements. The scenario framework offers the opportunity for the SSPs and full scenarios to be of greater value than has been the case in past exercises to both Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) and Impacts, Climatic Change (2014) 122:495-507

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Exploring Development Futures in a Changing Climate: Frontiers for Development Policy and Practice

Cited by 56 publications

References 17 publications

Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice

Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice

Developing a Community-Based Resilience Assessment Model with reference to Northern Ghana

Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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