This paper analyses the organizational and implementation design strategies of two ongoing
Local Adaptation Plan for Action (LAPA) initiatives in Nepal and Pakistan. LAPA is considered
an answer for institutionalized local-level adaptation planning that aims to capture local needs
and direct reso...
Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Sova, Chase
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Rasheed, T
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Baral, P.
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Zeb, A
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[Deconstructing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) - Analysis of Nepal and Pakistan LAPA initiatives]
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Deconstructing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) - Analysis of Nepal and Pakistan LAPA initiatives
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
As developing countries move from policy to implementing adaptation to climate change, formal operational structures are emerging that exceed the expertise of any one actor. We refer to these arrangements as ‘meta-organisations’ that comprise many autonomous component organisations tackling adapt...
Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Ventresca, Marc J.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Sova, Chase
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Baral, Prajwal
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Rasheed, Tahir
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Ligthart, Jasper
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[Emerging meta-organisations and adaptation to global climate change: Evidence from implementing adaptation in Nepal, Pakistan and Ghana]
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Emerging meta-organisations and adaptation to global climate change: Evidence from implementing adaptation in Nepal, Pakistan and 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
Debates around the design and content of climate change adaptation policies are shaped, in part, by the power and influence of actors within an adaptation regime. This paper applies a power-mapping technique, Multilevel Stakeholder Influence Mapping (MSIM), to stakeholders in Ghana's agricultural...
Sova, Chase
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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[Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime]
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Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime
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 ...
This report is intended to complement the 2011 CCAFS publication “State of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Efforts for Agriculture in Nepal” (Wang 2011). It provides relevant updates regarding the policies, projects, or initiatives introduced therein, and an assessment of the quickly evo...
Sova, Chase
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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[State of agricultural climate change adaptation policy in Nepal]
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State of agricultural climate change adaptation policy in Nepal
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
Where power lies and how it is conceived in studies of governance and institutions is often not discussed. This is due to the ubiquitous nature of the topic. Power is shaped by a variety of institutional factors, including the architecture of governing structures, questions of scale and level, an...
Sova, Chase
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Matthews, D.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime]
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Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime
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...