scholarly journals Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment

2017 ◽  
pp. 305-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Bretan ◽  
Nathan L. Engle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Change Assessment ◽  
Drought Preparedness

scholarly journals Institutional Tipping Points in Organizational Climate Change Adaptation Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Fünfgeld
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Value Add ◽  
Adaptation Processes

Despite increasing awareness of the urgency to respond to climate change through adaptation, progress with climate change adaptation differs considerably across social contexts, even within seemingly uniform institutional environments. Only a part of these differences in engaging in adaptation can be explained by differentiated exposure or sensitivity to climate change hazards. Institutions, and institutional change, play important roles in enabling or constraining adaptation at the social group scale. This paper borrows the concept of tipping points from the natural sciences (Lenton et al. 2008; Lenton 2013) and applies it to social processes of climate change adaptation by focusing on processes of institutional change towards and beyond ‘institutional’ tipping points. Different stages of institutional change, where social groups switch from one dominant attractor regime to another, are discussed and illustrated. Empirical research conducted in two organizations in the local government and primary health care sector in Australia are used as examples for how institutional adaptation occurs and how institutional tipping points can be identified. Reflecting on these examples, the paper reviews the conceptual value-add of the institutional tipping points concept, while also discussing its epistemological and methodological limitations.

An Economic Assessment on Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Water Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Yongjoon Kim ◽  
Sung-Eun Yoo ◽  
Ji Won Bang ◽  
Kwansoo Kim ◽  
Donghwan An
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Adaptation Policies

Less Rain and More Heat”: Smallholders’ Perception and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Tropical Environments

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Diana Infante Ramírez ◽  
Ana Minerva Arce Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

The main objective of this study was to analyze local perceptions of climate variability and the different adaptation strategies of four communities in the southern Yucatán Peninsula, using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach. Four SESs were considered: two in the coastal zone and two in the tropical forest zone. Data were collected using different qualitative methodological tools (interviews, participant observation, and focal groups) and the information collected from each site was triangulated. In all four sites, changes in climate variability were perceived as “less rain and more heat”. In the tropical forest (or Maya) zone, an ancestral indigenous weather forecasting system, known as “Xook k’íin” (or “las cabañuelas”), was recorded and the main activity affected by climate variability was found to be slash-and burn farming or the milpa. In the coastal zone, the main activities affected are fishing and tourism. In all the cases analyzed, local climate change adaptation strategies include undertaking alternative work, and changing the calendar of daily, seasonal and annual labor and seasonal migration. The population of all four SESs displayed concern and uncertainty as regards dealing with these changes and possible changes in the future.

Education in Emergency: A Climate Change Adaptation Agendum Towards the Socio-Economic Propagation of Bangladesh

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoeb-Ur-Rahman ◽  
Muhammad Ishaq Ur Rahman ◽  
Md. Shakib Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation
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