The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Development: Authority, Resource Control and State Intervention in Rural Zambia

Funder, Mikkel; Mweemba, Carol Emma; Nyambe, Imasiku

doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1277021

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“…Donors have supported the drafting process and have provided funding contingent on the passing of national climate change legislation (Zink 2013: 142-157). Yet, policies reflect not only donor wish-lists, but also domestic interests, echoing similar findings from other countries showing how global adaptation policy processes are used as a vessel for domestic politics (Funder et al 2018;Smucker et al 2015).…”

Section: Adaptation: Rationalities Scales and Implicationssupporting

confidence: 55%

“…Such programs further the premises of the systems of governance that engender them, thereby extending existing power relations and discrepancies. This article thus joins emerging literature that highlights the inherently political nature of climate change adaptation (Eguavoen et al 2013;Eriksen et al 2015;Funder et al 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…For policy and practice, the findings suggest a critical approach. Analyses of national adaptation policies have consistently indicated the major influence of international organizations and donors in their formulation, for instance in Zambia (Funder et al 2018), Nepal (Ojha et al 2016) and Vietnam (Zink 2013: 142-157). This poses a risk of the imposition of universal rationalities of adaptation that are unsuitable for local realities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(Leary et al 2007). This is reflected by the relatively limited scholarly literature on the domestic politics of climate change adaptation (exceptions include Artur and Hilhorst 2012;Eriksen et al 2015;Funder et al 2018;Ojha et al 2016;Smucker et al 2015). This is in comparison to a greater focus on global climate policy, the mitigation of climate change rather than adapting to it (Bulkeley 2005;Hall and Persson 2017;Javeline 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A historical, scaled approach to climate change adaptation: the case of Vietnam

Lindegaard¹

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article sheds light on how scaled, historical dynamics inform the framing of climate change adaptation programs. It looks particularly at the influence of domestic versus global rationalities in adaptation programs through a novel joint governance and political ecology framework. It does this in the setting of water management in Vietnam. Based on a historical view, semi-structured interviews and document and policy reviews, I examine historical water management in Vietnam and current water management programs identified as climate change adaptation. By analyzing how historical, scaled political rationalities inform the framing of current adaptation programs, I find that program formulation reflects domestic(ated) rationalities rather than novel global adaptation agendas. This suggests that universalizing accounts of climate change adaptation overlook the significance of situated, historical factors in the formulation of adaptation programs. Furthermore, the article illustrates how political rationalities can be rescaled, gaining traction within new institutional scales and the programs enacted from them. Finally, the article underlines the inherent power implications of the struggle to determine whose rationalities prevail in program formulation.

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Section: Adaptation: Rationalities Scales and Implicationssupporting

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2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…Therefore understanding policy-making in a wider political context and advancing knowledge of how ideas (or change in ideas) shape governance institutions will enhance reflexivity in policy-making and build up the resilience of strategies aimed at transforming societal institutions (Hotimsky et al 2006). This dissertation thus responds to the broader emerging agenda in the literature that is calling for more research into the domestic politics of climate change in developing countries (Tanner and Allouche 2011;Dodman and Mitlin 2015;Naess et al 2015;Sovacool et al 2015;Newell and H. Bulkeley 2016;Funder et al 2017) and the emergence of new discourses of green transformation in the global South (Arnall et al 2013;Death 2015).…”

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Governing Transformation towards Low-carbon Societies: An Ideational Perspective from Developing Countries

Henrysson¹

2018

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Securing a low-carbon future will require a multitude of ‘low-carbon transformations’. The issues are how such transformations are imagined and framed, along which pathways and who steers them, including the very basic question of what decisions are made to transform the present challenges to climate change governance. Understanding of the politics of these governance challenges is important in explaining which pathways are supported or delegitimised and which are ignored and fail to get off the ground. This dissertation focuses on the role of institutions and ideas in the multilevel, multi-actor and multi-factor governance of climate-compatible development. It aims to improve our understanding of potential endogenous sources of transformation by asking how ideas of sustainability influence the governance of a low-carbon society. It investigates the construction of policy problems, the content of policy proposals and the political agenda of present policies and reform imperatives around climate change mitigation and lowcarbon development. The question is addressed using a combination of perspectives, including governance theory and the constructivist institutional approach. Empirically, this dissertation is based on four separate case studies presented in individual articles. Overall, this dissertation contributes to on-going debates over domestic politics and policy-making regarding ‘green transformations’ and adds to the emerging policy field in developing countries contexts. It argues that there is a need to stimulate critical reflection on the existing assumptions regarding mitigation actions. It argues that governance choices, for example, in electricity infrastructure development or energy efficiency in buildings, or a broader range of mitigation actions, are not only defined by technological lockins. Equally important is the persistence of ideas that are used to justify and legitimise reforms by mobilising discourses on energy supply and security and framing energy transitions as part of wider goals to maintain socio-economic stability and pursue green growth development strategies. This dissertation shows that low-carbon development should not only be technically, institutionally and economically feasible, but also politically and ideationally feasible, to translate into action. Measures for institutionalising long-term transformation are unlikely to be effective if ideas about transformation cannot be developed within the parameters set by governance regimes. The key argument of this dissertation is that, for the governance of low-carbon societies, it is crucial to recognise that climate change mitigation actions are more than economic or technological challenges – they are politically charged. Paying attention to problem framings and to the diversity of multi-actor perspectives could facilitate novel responses to climate change and enable more inclusive forms of governance, as well as throwing light on the x fundamental incompatibility between and limited reach of generalised policy solutions and technological fixes.

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Climate opportunism and values of change on the Arctic agricultural frontier

Bradley

Stein

2022

Economic Anthropology

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An Arctic agricultural frontier is opening as climate change threatens growing conditions in established zones of crop commodity production. Projections of northward shifts of viable agricultural land unleash fantastical interest in the improbable reality of "farming the tundra." Expansion of Arctic agriculture has long figured in Alaska's history, including drawing settlers to the "Last Frontier," where farmers face challenges of extreme conditions, weak infrastructure, and fragile markets. This article, based on joint 2019 fieldwork and ongoing ethnography of landscape change and comparative commodity frontiers by the authors, tracks this imaginative frontier to examine how and why diverse Alaskan agriculturalists seize upon emerging conditions of climate change. We propose "climate opportunism" to frame an understanding of how agriculturalists may gain from changing growing conditions, drawing attention to the values in and beyond monetary gain generated in the social space of frontier imagination and grounded projects of livability in the Arctic. Across differently situated cultivators (a multigenerational immigrant family farm, an Inupiaq Arctic agriculture project, an urban hydroponics enterprise), we find that the changing landscape intensifies investment in embedded local values, while opportunism practiced at various scales both underscores and potentially obscures inequalities in resource distribution and alternatives to apocalyptic narratives of change.

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The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Development: Authority, Resource Control and State Intervention in Rural Zambia

Cited by 33 publications

References 30 publications

A historical, scaled approach to climate change adaptation: the case of Vietnam

A historical, scaled approach to climate change adaptation: the case of Vietnam

Governing Transformation towards Low-carbon Societies: An Ideational Perspective from Developing Countries

Climate opportunism and values of change on the Arctic agricultural frontier

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