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
The growth of peri-urban areas is increasingly recognised as a dominant planning and urban design challenge for the 21st century. In burgeoning poor urban settlements growing on city margins, autonomous adaptation strategies are often the only measures to respond to increasing climatic and compou...
Thorn, Jessica
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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[Autonomous adaptation to global environmental change in peri-urban settlements: Evidence of a growing culture of innovation and revitalisation in Mathare Valley Slums, Nairobi]
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Autonomous adaptation to global environmental change in peri-urban settlements: Evidence of a growing culture of innovation and revitalisation in Mathare Valley Slums, Nairobi
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
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...