Current models of adaptation to climate change focus on common causes of vulnerability among individuals and communities in an attempt to improve their capacity to adapt. These models tend to neglect the impact on vulnerability of local relationships that include political and economic power stru...
Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Ventresca, Marc J.
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Sova, Chase
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[Ties that bind: Local networks, communities and adaptive capacity in rural Ghana]
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Ties that bind: Local networks, communities and adaptive capacity in rural Ghana
Adaptation to climate change is an important theme in the strategy and policy of institutions around the world. Billions of dollars are allocated every year, based on cost estimates of actions to cope with, or benefit from the impacts of climate change. Costing adaptation, however, is complex, in...
Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Sova, Chase
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[Participatory adaptation planning and costing. Applications in agricultural adaptation in western Kenya]
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Participatory adaptation planning and costing. Applications in agricultural adaptation in western Kenya
The extent to which any policy, planning, or funding frameworks aimed at supporting climate change adaptation contribute to improved adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers is strongly affected by the power/influence dynamics between actors within those regimes. Power and influence studies have ...
Sova, Chase
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Matthews, David
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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[Exploring farmer preference shaping in international agricultural climate change adaptation regimes]
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Exploring farmer preference shaping in international agricultural climate change adaptation regimes
This paper introduces a five-step framework, namely the Robust Adaptation Planning (RAP) framework, to plan and respond to the ‘grand challenge’ of climate change. RAP combines, under a unified framework, elements from robust action, participatory planning and network theory to capture the differ...