Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?
Ensor, J.E., Park, S.E., Attwood, S.J., Kaminski, A.M., and Johnson, J.E. (2018) Can community-based adaptation increase resilience? Climate and Development Journal, 10 (2). pp. 134-151.
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Abstract
A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations and benefits of resilience thinking and undermining evaluation of resilience outcomes in target communities. This paper examines different participatory assessment activities carried out as part of CBA case studies in Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. The activities and their outputs were assessed against 10 characteristics of resilience previously identified in a systematic review. The findings offer support to the claim that CBA can build resilience in target communities, revealing the inherent strengths of CBA in relation to resilience. However, it is necessary for CBA assessments to simultaneously incorporate activities that consider cultural, political, economic and ecological factors influencing resilience within and between communities. This may demand multiple staff with different skills. The findings also highlight the importance of politics and power in shaping adaptive capacity. In particular, addressing the highly context specific nature of social, cultural and political relations demands an approach that is situated in and responsive to local realities. Overall, our case studies suggest that using the 10 characteristics as an analytical framework offers support to practitioners looking to develop, implement or evaluate CBA assessment activities. Yet within this, it is critical that a focus on increasing resilience through CBA does not preclude transformation in social relations. Realising the potential to support resilience and transformation requires CBA practitioners to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of resilience, whilst also paying close attention to multiple potential barriers to equitable adaptation.
| Item ID: | 53598 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1756-5537 |
| Keywords: | community-based adaptation, climate change, participation, fisheries |
| Copyright Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| Funders: | Asian Development Bank (ADB), Global Environment Fund (GEF), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS), Swedish Government (SG) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2018 08:41 |
| FoR Codes: | 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation @ 50% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441002 Environmental sociology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960307 Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) @ 30% 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences @ 30% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960301 Climate Change Adaptation Measures @ 40% |
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