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

Johnson, Craig; Dulal, Hari Bansha; Prowse, Martin; Krishnamurthy, P. Krishna; Mitchell, Tom

doi:10.1111/dpr.12036

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“…Given the market distortions introduced by government-subsidized flood insurance in high-income countries and the laissez-faire approaches to land management and growing informal settlements in low-income countries, we can expect that many more people -both the well off and the poor -will find themselves in flood zones in the future. While we may not have provided definitive evidence in this study of differential exposure in the two cities, we maintain that understanding the social protection needs of vulnerable populations will become increasingly important in the context of climate change (Johnson et al 2013). …”

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confidence: 79%

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Sherbinin¹,

Bardy²

2016

Populationyearbook

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In this paper we assess differential exposure to flooding in two coastal megacities, New York and Mumbai, both of which suffered major flood-related disasters in the past decade. Specifically, we examine whether the most exposed populations are also the most socially vulnerable. First, we developed Social Vulnerability Indices (SoVIs) for each city with census data. We then overlaid the SoVI scores onto flood extent maps for Hurricane Sandy (New York, October 2012) and the Mumbai flash floods (July 2005), as well as for the evacuation zones for New York, to examine patterns of differential exposure. Our results suggest a degree of differential exposure in New York, especially in the highest flood risk areas, and provide fairly clear evidence for differential exposure in Mumbai. However, differences in the input resolution and confidence in the datasets for Mumbai make the results more uncertain. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications and the data needs for urban spatial vulnerability assessments.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Sherbinin¹,

Bardy²

2016

Populationyearbook

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“…Programmes must encourage livelihood diversification and the spreading of risk. This includes the facilitation of migration as a risk reduction strategy (Béné et al, 2014;Johnson et al, 2013;Martin, 2010). Especially in areas that cannot be protected from sea-level rise, regular flooding or storm surges, or that suffer from a severe lack of water migration should be a key approach to climate risk management.…”

Section: Social Protection and Slow-onset Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social protection as a strategy to address climate-induced migration

Schwan

2018

IJCCSM

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Design/methodology/approach -Based on the existing literature, the paper links empirical evidence on the effects of social protection to climate-related drivers of migration and the needs of vulnerable populations. This approach allows conceptually identifying characteristics of effective social protection policies.Findings -Findings indicate that social protection can be part of a proactive approach to managing climateinduced migration both in rural and urban areas. In particular, public work programmes offer solutions to different migration outcomes, from no to permanent migration. Benefits are achieved when programmes explicitly integrate climate change impacts into their design. Social protection can provide temporary support to facilitate migration, in situ adaptation or integration and adaptation in destination areas. It is no substitution for but can help trigger sustainable adaptation solutions.Originality/value -The paper helps close research gaps regarding the potential roles and channels of social protection for addressing and facilitating climate-induced migration and providing public support in destination, mostly in urban areas.

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“…MGNREGA offers an opportunity to address climate change concerns through a widespread social protection programme that guarantees labour and provides public assets. The MGNREGA's potential to perform dual social protection and climate change functions speaks to wider debates in the literature, which has focused on the potential for integrating social protection and climate resilient programming as a means to counter the threats posed by a changing climate (Vincent & Cull, ; Davies et al., ; Johnson et al., ; Béné et al., ). In this section, we chart the key facets of this debate, highlighting PWPs as a potential approach to integrated programming.…”

Section: Social Protection and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, it is claimed that the known impacts of social protection schemes are likely to reduce vulnerability to climate change as well (Godfrey‐Wood, ; Béné et al., ). Second, it is argued that social protection and climate change policies have overlapping objectives, and could therefore benefit from some form of “integration” in order to become more effective and sustainable in the long term (Kuriakose et al., ; Johnson et al., ).…”

Section: Social Protection and Climate Changementioning

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Does Guaranteed employment promote resilience to climate change? The case of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

Godfrey-Wood

Flower

2017

Development Policy Review

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India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest labour guarantee scheme in the world, offering 100 days of paid labour to every rural household. This article reviews the growing evidence base, assessing the extent to which the scheme can be said to contribute to resilience to climate change, based on its effectiveness as a safety net and driver of household accumulation, its ability to create assets which build collective resilience, and its support for transformations of exploitative social relations. The article concludes that the MGNREGA has already made a major contribution to resilience, but requires improvements in governance and state capacity to maximize its contribution.

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

Abstract: This article lays the foundation for this special issue on social protection and climate change, introducing and evaluating the ways in which the individual articles contribute to our understanding of the subject.

Cited by 18 publications

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Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai

Social protection as a strategy to address climate-induced migration

Does Guaranteed employment promote resilience to climate change? The case of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

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