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Issue 45 : Adapting to climate change
Humankind will have to learn to live with climate change. Experts argue that even the most effective mitigation measures will no longer be sufficient to avert climate change resulting from past carbon emissions. This issue of Capacity.org discusses the capacity of communities to adapt to the effects of climate change. It focuses in particular on those communities considered most vulnerable to climate change impacts, including marginalized smallholders and pastoralists whose livelihoods depend on natural resource bases that are already severely stressed and degraded.
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Transformative adaptation
Communities
responding to climate change
Most adaptation strategies focus on coping with climate change effects. But adaptation involves much more than simply putting a plaster over a scratch – it requires transformative thinking and change.
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Transformative adaptation
06 June 2012
Communities
responding to climate change
Most adaptation strategies focus on coping with climate change effects. But adaptation involves much more than simply putting a plaster over a scratch – it requires transformative thinking and change.
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- policy
- analytical frameworks
- community empowerment
E. Lisa F. Schipper
(Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden)
Bringing climate models to Indian communities
07 June 2012
A
first in the field
Seva Mandir, a non-governmental voluntary organisation working in Rajasthan, India joined hands with ICCO and scientists from the Dutch institute Alterra to find out what climate change impacts lie in store for the region.
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Ronak Shah
(Seva Mandir, India )
Shaika Rakshi
(Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO) India )
Peter Goedhart the Netherlands
(Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO) Global Office)
The low-carbon development pathway
08 June 2012
INTERVIEW:
Prospects after the Durban Climate Change Summit
Angela Churie Kallhauge, senior policy advisor at the Swedish Energy Agency, represents Sweden at high-level climate change negotiations and has her roots in a pastoralist community in Kenya. Capacity.org talked to her about adaptation, mitigation and development.
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Enhancing resilience through dialogue
06 June 2012
Bridging gaps between providers and users of
science
Vulnerable communities as well as supporting agencies often do not understand ‘the language’ of weather and climate scientists. As a result, scientific information often fails to trigger or inform community action. Innovative methods have been developed to overcome this communication gap.
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Samuel Carpenter
(Humanitarian Futures Programme, King’s College, London, UK)
Emma Visman
(Humanitarian Futures Programme, King’s College, London, UK)
Arame Tall
(Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dakar, Senegal )
Dominic Kniveton
(University of Sussex, UK )
Receding rains in Rayalaseema
08 June 2012
Small
farmers overstretched
Over the last three decades, the people of the Rayalaseema region have witnessed a changing climate that has stretched their ability to adapt beyond limits.
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Y.V. Malla Reddy
(Director, AF Ecology Centre, Anantapur, India )
Adaptation programmes flawed
07 June 2012
GUEST COLUMN
For national adaptation programmes to succeed, partners of the communities – including non-governmental organizations, governmental rural agencies, and local and central administrations – need to gear their planning methods and approaches to effectively support the community’s adaptation efforts. Therefore, IUCN has developed a toolkit outlining participatory approaches and methods covering the entire adaptation cycle including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The toolkit also provides recommendations for linking up the community planning cycle to higher levels of adaptation planning and programming.
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Scaling up inclusive business models
06 June 2012
From islands of success to seas of change
Several successful approaches to inclusive business have been developed in recent decades. What will it take to scale them up? This was the core question discussed at an international workshop held in The Hague in April 2012 as part of the Seas of Change Initiative.
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Editorial: Adapting to climate change
06 June 2012
Humankind will have to learn to live with climate change. Experts argue that even the most effective mitigation measures will no longer be sufficient to avert climate change resulting from past carbon emissions.
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Heinz Greijn
(Editor-in-Chief, Capacity.org)
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