Integrating adaptation into development strategies: The Southern African perspective

Chevallier, Romy

doi:10.3763/cdev.2010.0039

Cited by 13 publications

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“…Agricultural production (e.g., Lobell et al 2008), livestock (e.g., Thornton et al 2009), food security (Hertel et al 2010), freshwater resources, and socioeconomic structures in many African countries are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change (Boko et al 2007;Chevallier 2010). Africa is characterized by low adaptive capacity and high vulnerability so a response to the threat of climate change requires both mitigation and adaptation measures.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Diagnostic Evaluation of Precipitation in CORDEX Models over Southern Africa

et al. 2013

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The authors evaluate the ability of 10 regional climate models (RCMs) to simulate precipitation over Southern Africa within the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework. An ensemble of 10 regional climate simulations and the ensemble average is analyzed to evaluate the models' ability to reproduce seasonal and interannual regional climatic features over regions of the subcontinent. All the RCMs use a similar domain, have a spatial resolution of ;50 km, and are driven by the Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim;-2008. Results are compared against a number of observational datasets.In general, the spatial and temporal nature of rainfall over the region is captured by all RCMs, although individual models exhibit wet or dry biases over particular regions of the domain. Models generally produce lower seasonal variability of precipitation compared to observations and the magnitude of the variability varies in space and time. Model biases are related to model setup, simulated circulation anomalies, and moisture transport. The multimodel ensemble mean generally outperforms individual models, with bias magnitudes similar to differences across the observational datasets. In the northern parts of the domain, some of the RCMs and the ensemble average improve the precipitation climate compared to that of ERA-Interim. The models are generally able to capture the dry (wet) precipitation anomaly associated with El Niño (La Niña) events across the region. Based on this analysis, the authors suggest that the present set of RCMs can be used to provide useful information on climate projections of rainfall over Southern Africa.

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A Diagnostic Evaluation of Precipitation in CORDEX Models over Southern Africa

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“…Two articles in this review reflected a TRM approach (Refs and ). Both emphasized the need for a holistic approach to adaptation that addressed multiple aspects of vulnerability.…”

Section: Approaches To Planned Adaptation In Developing Countriesmentioning

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“…There were only two articles in this review with a TRM approach to adaptation (Refs and ). However, as previously mentioned, the TRM approach is potentially more likely to occur within engineering and natural science disciplines, which may have been excluded in our article selection process described above.…”

Section: Approaches To Planned Adaptation In Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries

Sherman¹,

Berrang‐Ford²,

Lwasa

et al. 2016

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Climate change adaptation is increasingly considered an urgent priority for policy action. Billions of dollars have been pledged for adaptation finance, with many donor agencies requiring that adaptation is distinct from baseline development. However, practitioners and academics continue to question what adaptation looks like on the ground, especially in a developing country. This study examines the current framing of planned adaptation amidst low socioeconomic development and considers the practical implications of this framing for adaptation planning. Three overarching approaches to planned adaptation in a developing country context emerged in a systematic review of 30 peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2015, including: (1) technocratic risk management, which treats adaptation as additional to development, (2) pro-poor vulnerability reduction, which acknowledges the ability of conventional development to foster and act as adaptation, and (3) sustainable adaptation, which suggests that adaptation should only be integrated into a type of development that is socially and environmentally sustainable. Over half of 'sustainable adaptation' articles in this review took a critical adaptation approach, drawing primarily from political ecology and postdevelopment studies, and emphasizing the malleability of adaptation. The reviewed articles highlight how the different framings of the relationship between adaptation and development result in diverse and sometimes contradictory messages regarding adaptation design, implementation, funding, monitoring, and evaluation. This review illustrates the need to continually interrogate the multiple framings of adaptation and development and to foster a pragmatic and pluralistic dialogue regarding planned adaptation and transformative change in developing countries.

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“…Adaptation to climate change refers to adjustments to current or predicted changes in order to reduce vulnerability (Nelson et al, 2007;Chevallier, 2010). In particular, adaptation embraces both the decisionmaking process and the set of actions undertaken to reduce risk (Füssel, 2007;Nelson et al, 2007;Parry et al, 2007).…”

Section: Section Ii: Initiating and Sustaining Urban Adapationmentioning

confidence: 99%