Study of the Vulnerability of Basic Social Infrastructure of the Mexico’s North Border for Purposes of Resiliency and Adaptation to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change

Anthropogenic climate change has and will have unavoidable adverse effects despite mitigation and adaptation policies. Therefore, the financial burden of the costs of loss and damage must be distributed fairly and proportionally. This implies that those responsible for climate change must take responsibility and compensate those who suffer losses and, if possible, repair the damages related to this phenomenon. However, climate justice has been limited by the lack of a causal link between a specific climate change effect and specific damages or losses. Accordingly, this article discusses the compensation and reparation of losses and damages related to the adverse effects of climate change, as a stream applicable after mitigation and adaptation policies. In addition, this article reviews the implications of the relevant findings that established the existence and development of climate change as a problem that affects the enjoyment of human rights, to argue how the theory of human rights can contribute to the current legal model for reparation and compensation for losses and damages associated with climate change. Also, due to the impossibility of obtaining a legally binding agreement as a structure for integration, and to adequately address the problem of causes, consequences, benefits and burdens, vulnerable groups ought to be the most affected.

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Strengthening the Response to Disasters and Trauma

Community Resilience ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 140-153

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Extreme Weather ◽

Research Network ◽

Social Infrastructure ◽

Resilient Communities ◽

Pilot Programs ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Chapter 10 opens with the Gulf Research Program’s Lauren Alexander Augustine presenting four pilot programs from around the country that illustrate the cornerstones of community resilience. Next, Benjamin Springgate examines resilience as a reflection of individual communities and describes a research network that promotes research on resilience-strengthening practices. Lourdes J. Rodríguez and Sheila B. Savannah then explain how neighborhoods that are striving for resilience should be involved like patients in the process of healing. Finally, three contributors offer unique perspectives on resilient communities: Traci L. Birch looks at why resilience efforts should also focus on inland communities that are no longer immune to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. And Joie B. Acosta and Elka Gotfryd encourage us to think broadly about resilience as they explore opportunities to build responsive social infrastructure through engaged citizen participation.

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Displacement in the context of disasters and adverse effects of climate change

Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law ◽

10.4337/9781784717407.00028 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 358-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Walter Kälin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Adverse Effects

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Compensating for Climate Change Loss and Damage

Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0032321716647401 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 356-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Edward A Page ◽

Clare Heyward

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Adverse Effects ◽

Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Negotiations ◽

Normative Framework ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Loss And Damage ◽

International Climate ◽

Compensatory Justice

With the adoption of the Warsaw International Mechanism in 2013, the international community recognised that anthropogenic climate change will result in a range of adverse effects despite policies of mitigation and adaptation. Addressing these climatic ‘losses and damages’ is now a key dimension of international climate change negotiations. This article presents a normative framework for thinking about loss and damage designed to inform, and give meaning to, these negotiations. It argues that policies addressing loss and damage, particularly those targeting developing countries, should respect norms of compensatory justice which aim to make victims of unwarranted climatic disruptions ‘whole again’. The article develops a typology of different kinds of climate change disruption and uses it to (1) explain the differences between ‘losses’ and ‘damages’, (2) assign priorities among compensatory measures seeking to address loss and damage and (3) explore a range of equitable responses to loss and damage.

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Using climate analogue tools to explore and build smallholder farmer capacity for climate smart agriculture

AAS Open Research ◽

10.12688/aasopenres.12822.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Phyllis Opare ◽

Johnson O. Akintonde ◽

Daniel Obeng-Ofori ◽

Valerie Nelson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Weather Forecasting ◽

Food Sovereignty ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Rainfall Variability ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Social Infrastructure ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Smart Agriculture

Background: The phenomenon of climate change (CC) and its attendant challenges in agriculture have been widely document. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) focuses on sustainable agriculture intensification for food sovereignty through the adoption of mitigation and adaptation practices. Agriculture provides the livelihood for 70% of rural poor in the developing world, so building farmer capacity in CSA is imperative for food security. Studies show that transformative change must be bottom-up – integrating scientific and ethical dimensions, using participatory research approaches that employ simple comprehensive tools for building participants’ capacity to adapt. Methods: The study uses the “Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security” (CCAFS) climate analogue and weather forecasting tools. These participatory learning tools allow participants to interrogate and explore their own geographical and climatic histories and to draw conclusions on climate variability. This study examined smallholder farmers’ understanding of CC and their resilience to it. The study consisted of 5 stages – selection of tools, planning and training of teams, meetings with community leaders and community members to select participants, focus group discussions, modelling sessions and community dissemination meetings. Results: Participants showed awareness of CC, explained in terms of rainfall variability, decreasing rainforest, increasing temperature and excessively long hot days. Farmers illustrated gendered perception of past and present landscapes, time use, past seasonal trends, vulnerabilities and access to key resources. They also observed that natural resources were declining, while population and social infrastructure increased. Participants modelled the shift in seasons and projected possible future scenarios. Finally, participants were willing to adopt climate smart agronomic practices. Conclusions: After establishing that farmers are aware of CC, follow-on-studies addressing the impediments to adaptation and provision of necessary tools and resources to facilitate adaptation must be carried out. This study can also be replicated among a larger smallholder population for increased capacity to practice CSA.

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Insurance Law Principles in an International Context: Compensating Losses Caused by Climate Change

Alberta Law Review ◽

10.29173/alr96 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 541 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Craig Brown ◽

Sara Seck

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Adverse Effects ◽

Civil Liability ◽

Insurance Fund ◽

International Level ◽

Private Companies ◽

International Context ◽

Insurance Law ◽

The Future

This article examines the challenges of paying for loss caused by climate change. It discusses how weather-related harms might become uninsurable by private companies in the future as the adverse effects of climate change increase in severity. Additionally, this article recognizes the difficulty in imposing civil liability on wrongdoers for climate-related harms, and explores options for state-sponsored or state-subsidized insurance. Finally, the authors examine possibilities for an international insurance fund, but eventually conclude that such a fund would unlikely be endorsed at the international level and would not benefit Canadians.

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Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname

Politics ◽

10.1177/02633957211042478 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026339572110424

Author(s):

Yolanda Ariadne Collins

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Adverse Effects ◽

Climate Vulnerability ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Research on the overlap between race and vulnerability to the physical and governance-related aspects of climate change is often globally scaled, based on extended temporalities, and colour-coded with non-white populations recognized as being at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change. This article shows how de-centring whiteness from its position as automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for greater recognition of the role played by the environment in processes of racialization. De-centring whiteness in this way would form a valuable step towards recognizing how race, constructed in part through shifting relations between people and the environment, overlaps with climate vulnerability within multiracial populations. Without discounting the value of global, colour-coded interpretations of race, I point out the limits of their applicability to understandings of how climate change is unfolding Guyana and Suriname, two multiracial Caribbean countries. I argue that in the postcolonial period, relations with the environment take historical constructions of race forward in ways that undergird the impacts of climate change. Even further, I show how the environment has always played a key, underacknowledged role in processes of racialization, complicating colour-coded interpretations of race, whether global or local.

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