Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city&am... more Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city's name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global ...
This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options i... more This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. We argue that environmental stressors such as cyclones, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and floods have negative impacts on people's lives by reducing their livelihood options. Twelve in-depth interviews (Livelihood Histories) and twelve Focus Group Discussions (FGD) based on two Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools (Village Timeline and Contextual Change) were carried out in three different sites in coastal Bangladesh were conducted under the study. Our study finds that when there are insufficient adaptation strategies to environmental stressors, many people turn to livelihoods banned by the government. These 'illegal livelihoods' include using fine mesh nets to collect shrimp fry in the rivers as well as logging in the Sundarbans. These people are often the poorestand vulnerable, and law enforcement only exacerbate their vulnerability. We end by concluding those that have turned to 'illegal livelihoods' as a result of detrimental environmental stressors should be viewed as a special category of vulnerable people by policymakers, and steps need to be taken to ensure resilience to different environmental stressors.
... These changes include a higher frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods... more ... These changes include a higher frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods, as ... ment as usual'and it is difficult to distinguish the additional 'adaptation components ... to factor in the potential impact of climate change on livelihoods and vulnerability to disasters ...
Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international ne... more Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
ABSTRACT This article explores community-based adaptation strategies drawing lessons from the fie... more ABSTRACT This article explores community-based adaptation strategies drawing lessons from the field in four different countries of Asia and Africa. The analysis explores several key factors in successful adaptation at the community level, including the importance of culture, the role of institutions and the significance of mainstreaming and good governance. The influence that policy has on adaptation and the way in which policy can be used to support autonomous adaptations is emphasized to show linkages between local action and national policy. The article also recommends several policy implications for future adaptation efforts, concluding that while policy from the top must support adaptation at the bottom, community adaptation should circle upwards to influence policy strongly.
The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (S... more The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of the literature on the scientifi c, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy (RE) sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is intended to provide policy relevant information to governments, intergovernmental processes and other
Effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) into related policy and development in... more Effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) into related policy and development initiatives relies on comprehensive knowledge sharing between multiple stakeholders. In Bangladesh, community-based adaptation (CBA) practitioners are critical for facilitating communication among global, national and local scales. They can also take responsibility for finding appropriate channels through which to share relevant information. Interviews with CBA practitioners examine how knowledge is gained and transmitted between practitioners and other CCA stakeholders, focusing on the challenges experienced. These challenges represent friction in knowledge transmittal. Key to lubricating smooth knowledge flows is an understanding of the specific contexts within which knowledge is to be exchanged. At the professional level, multidisciplinary knowledge must be made accessible through provision of widely comprehensible content shared in an appropriate format. At the local level, understandings of trust, priorities and power relations are vital for ensuring relevance in the knowledge shared by professional stakeholders. Mobilizing appropriate knowledge can allow widespread comprehension of adaptation aims, enabling the mainstreaming of CCA and ensuring that resulting action is beneficial at the local level, for communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
ABSTRACT Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in interna... more ABSTRACT Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society, 2010
... beyond the short-term thinking associated with election cycles and strategic political maneuv... more ... beyond the short-term thinking associated with election cycles and strategic political maneuvering. ...Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) is one such form of response ... vulnerability reduction activities that increase resilience to a range of factors, including climate change. ...
Document begins: WATER AND THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) REPORT PREPARED FOR THE UNITED NA... more Document begins: WATER AND THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) REPORT PREPARED FOR THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE LDCS, LLDCS AND SIDS BY SALEEMUL HUQ, HANNAH REID AND LAUREL ...
Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city&am... more Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city's name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global ...
This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options i... more This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. We argue that environmental stressors such as cyclones, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and floods have negative impacts on people's lives by reducing their livelihood options. Twelve in-depth interviews (Livelihood Histories) and twelve Focus Group Discussions (FGD) based on two Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools (Village Timeline and Contextual Change) were carried out in three different sites in coastal Bangladesh were conducted under the study. Our study finds that when there are insufficient adaptation strategies to environmental stressors, many people turn to livelihoods banned by the government. These 'illegal livelihoods' include using fine mesh nets to collect shrimp fry in the rivers as well as logging in the Sundarbans. These people are often the poorestand vulnerable, and law enforcement only exacerbate their vulnerability. We end by concluding those that have turned to 'illegal livelihoods' as a result of detrimental environmental stressors should be viewed as a special category of vulnerable people by policymakers, and steps need to be taken to ensure resilience to different environmental stressors.
... These changes include a higher frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods... more ... These changes include a higher frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods, as ... ment as usual'and it is difficult to distinguish the additional 'adaptation components ... to factor in the potential impact of climate change on livelihoods and vulnerability to disasters ...
Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international ne... more Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
ABSTRACT This article explores community-based adaptation strategies drawing lessons from the fie... more ABSTRACT This article explores community-based adaptation strategies drawing lessons from the field in four different countries of Asia and Africa. The analysis explores several key factors in successful adaptation at the community level, including the importance of culture, the role of institutions and the significance of mainstreaming and good governance. The influence that policy has on adaptation and the way in which policy can be used to support autonomous adaptations is emphasized to show linkages between local action and national policy. The article also recommends several policy implications for future adaptation efforts, concluding that while policy from the top must support adaptation at the bottom, community adaptation should circle upwards to influence policy strongly.
The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (S... more The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of the literature on the scientifi c, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy (RE) sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is intended to provide policy relevant information to governments, intergovernmental processes and other
Effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) into related policy and development in... more Effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) into related policy and development initiatives relies on comprehensive knowledge sharing between multiple stakeholders. In Bangladesh, community-based adaptation (CBA) practitioners are critical for facilitating communication among global, national and local scales. They can also take responsibility for finding appropriate channels through which to share relevant information. Interviews with CBA practitioners examine how knowledge is gained and transmitted between practitioners and other CCA stakeholders, focusing on the challenges experienced. These challenges represent friction in knowledge transmittal. Key to lubricating smooth knowledge flows is an understanding of the specific contexts within which knowledge is to be exchanged. At the professional level, multidisciplinary knowledge must be made accessible through provision of widely comprehensible content shared in an appropriate format. At the local level, understandings of trust, priorities and power relations are vital for ensuring relevance in the knowledge shared by professional stakeholders. Mobilizing appropriate knowledge can allow widespread comprehension of adaptation aims, enabling the mainstreaming of CCA and ensuring that resulting action is beneficial at the local level, for communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
ABSTRACT Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in interna... more ABSTRACT Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society, 2010
... beyond the short-term thinking associated with election cycles and strategic political maneuv... more ... beyond the short-term thinking associated with election cycles and strategic political maneuvering. ...Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) is one such form of response ... vulnerability reduction activities that increase resilience to a range of factors, including climate change. ...
Document begins: WATER AND THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) REPORT PREPARED FOR THE UNITED NA... more Document begins: WATER AND THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) REPORT PREPARED FOR THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE LDCS, LLDCS AND SIDS BY SALEEMUL HUQ, HANNAH REID AND LAUREL ...
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comprehensive knowledge sharing between multiple stakeholders. In Bangladesh, community-based adaptation (CBA)
practitioners are critical for facilitating communication among global, national and local scales. They can also take
responsibility for finding appropriate channels through which to share relevant information. Interviews with CBA
practitioners examine how knowledge is gained and transmitted between practitioners and other CCA stakeholders,
focusing on the challenges experienced. These challenges represent friction in knowledge transmittal. Key to lubricating
smooth knowledge flows is an understanding of the specific contexts within which knowledge is to be exchanged. At the
professional level, multidisciplinary knowledge must be made accessible through provision of widely comprehensible
content shared in an appropriate format. At the local level, understandings of trust, priorities and power relations are vital
for ensuring relevance in the knowledge shared by professional stakeholders. Mobilizing appropriate knowledge can allow
widespread comprehension of adaptation aims, enabling the mainstreaming of CCA and ensuring that resulting action is
beneficial at the local level, for communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
comprehensive knowledge sharing between multiple stakeholders. In Bangladesh, community-based adaptation (CBA)
practitioners are critical for facilitating communication among global, national and local scales. They can also take
responsibility for finding appropriate channels through which to share relevant information. Interviews with CBA
practitioners examine how knowledge is gained and transmitted between practitioners and other CCA stakeholders,
focusing on the challenges experienced. These challenges represent friction in knowledge transmittal. Key to lubricating
smooth knowledge flows is an understanding of the specific contexts within which knowledge is to be exchanged. At the
professional level, multidisciplinary knowledge must be made accessible through provision of widely comprehensible
content shared in an appropriate format. At the local level, understandings of trust, priorities and power relations are vital
for ensuring relevance in the knowledge shared by professional stakeholders. Mobilizing appropriate knowledge can allow
widespread comprehension of adaptation aims, enabling the mainstreaming of CCA and ensuring that resulting action is
beneficial at the local level, for communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.