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 ...
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...