Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil

Lemos, Maria Carmen; Lo, Yun Jia; Nelson, Donald R.; Eakin, Hallie; Bedran-Martins, Ana Maria

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.001

Cited by 135 publications

(94 citation statements)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The majority of smallholder farmers living in NEB rely on subsistence agriculture, therefore droughts often trigger water shortage, leading to crop and economic losses [11,17,18]. Different types locations with soil moisture data measured in situ.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the SMOS-Derived Soil Water Deficit Index as Agricultural Drought Index in Northeast of Brazil

Paredes‐Trejo

Barbosa

2017

Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Northeast Brazil (NEB) has recently experienced one of its worst droughts in the last decades, with large losses on rainfed agriculture. Soil moisture is the main variable to monitor agricultural drought. The remote sensing approach for drought monitoring has been enriched with the launch of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) in November 2009 by European Space Agency (ESA). In this work, the Soil Water Deficit Index (SWDI) was calculated using the SMOS L2 soil moisture in the NEB. The SMOS-derived SWDI data (SWDIS) were evaluated against the atmospheric water deficit (AWD) calculated from in situ observations. Comparisons were made at seven-day and 0.25 • scales, over the time-span of June 2010 to December 2013. It was found that the SWDIS has a reasonably good overall performance in terms of the drought-weeks detection (skill = 0.986) and capture of the upper soil moisture temporal dynamic (r = 0.652), implying that the SWDIS could be used to track agricultural droughts. Furthermore, SWDIS shows poor performance at sites located in mountains regions affected by severe droughts (−0.10 ≤ r ≤ 0.10). It is also noted that the vegetal cover/use, climate regime, and soil texture have little influence on the AWD-SWDIS coupling.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the SMOS-Derived Soil Water Deficit Index as Agricultural Drought Index in Northeast of Brazil

Paredes‐Trejo

Barbosa

2017

Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Network RFTO, on the other hand, represents an insertion of an exchange network that stabilizes a system output but which might also amplify fragilities because of the connection to the larger network. In northeast Brazil, to illustrate, a crop insurance program increased the robustness of the farming system by compensating the natural disturbance induced production damages (Lemos et al 2016), and thus the system was made more sensitive to national and global economic fluctuations. Building on these insights, we analyze RFTOs that have occurred in the study system.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robust-yet-fragile nature of partly engineered social-ecological systems: a case study of coastal Bangladesh

Ishtiaque¹,

Sangwan²,

Yu³

2017

E&S

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. Modern social-ecological systems are often partly engineered to enhance the robustness (or reduce the variance) of human welfare to environmental fluctuations over a foreseeable time horizon. Recent studies show, however, that subtle trade-offs are usually inherent in such efforts of enhancing short-term robustness. Managing variance on short time scales is likely to be associated with the buildup of hidden fragilities on longer time scales. Using a flood-prone social-ecological system (SES) of coastal Bangladesh as an example, this paper investigates some of the ways in which such robustness-fragility trade-offs can manifest. This SES has been extensively modified in the last few decades through the construction of large-scale flood protection structures (polders) and the introduction of commercial shrimp farming to enhance the robustness of food production to hydrological variability. Our case study analysis of the long-term changes in the SES shows that, although the modifications helped with stability in short time scales, the resulting changes also induced unforeseen problems such as infrastructure maintenance issues, land degradation and sinking, and exposure to market volatility. With this paper therefore we contribute to better understanding of the notion of robustness-fragility trade-offs by illustrating an exemplary case of the phenomenon in the engineered coastal environment context.

show abstract

“…Thus, in order to building adaptive capacity in least developed countries, Lemos et al (2013) suggest that there are two kinds of capacities that play a role in adaptive capacity: generic capacities and specific capacities. Generic capacities refer to the ability to respond to basic human development needs, while specific capacities refer to the ability to respond to specific issues such as climate change impacts (Eakin et al, 2014;Lemos et al, 2013;Lemos et al, 2016). Both capacities must be addressed explicitly, simultaneously and iteratively if sustainable adaptation to climate change goals are to be attained (Eakin et al, 2014).…”

Section: Adaptive Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eakin & Bojorquez-Tapia, 2008;Vincent, 2007). Lemos et al (2016) consider adaptive capacity to include specific capacities and associated tools and skills that enable actors to anticipate and effectively respond to specific threats (e.g. the ability to respond to and manage identified climate hazards).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance

Le¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil

Cited by 135 publications

References 34 publications

Evaluation of the SMOS-Derived Soil Water Deficit Index as Agricultural Drought Index in Northeast of Brazil

Evaluation of the SMOS-Derived Soil Water Deficit Index as Agricultural Drought Index in Northeast of Brazil

Robust-yet-fragile nature of partly engineered social-ecological systems: a case study of coastal Bangladesh

Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About