Diffusion of Climate Change Adaptation Policies Among Local Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptual Review

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Issah Justice Musah-Surugu ◽  
Albert Ahenkan ◽  
Justice Nyigmah Bawole ◽  
Samuel Antwi Darkwah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Tetteh Quarshie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Place Meaning ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Climate Shocks

This critical review paper expands on the meaning of place. It opens a new narrative on how the geographic concept of place is conceptualized in smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation literature in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review suggested that place is not only the 'where' of a location but a location geographically connected and interdependent to illustrate how smallholder farmers' experiences in adapting to climate shocks interact with global efforts such as improving food security, eliminating poverty and building sustainable rural livelihood. Through the various climate change adaptation strategies exhibited by different farmer groups, the paper demonstrated that people in places have the agency to make choices that control their destinies irrespective of whatever global force overwhelms them. The paper argues sense of place expressed through ecological place meaning shapes people's intuition, beliefs, actions and experiences as illustrated by smallholders' perception of the determinant and barriers to effective adaptation strategies. The ecological place meaning also influences the 'glocalization' of climate impact on agroecological-based livelihoods at different locations and how maladaptive outcomes are perceived. Place gives people identity by (re)shaping actions and experiences and vice versa. There is an undeviating relationship between power, place and people's experience. Further exploration of the relationship between lifeworld experiences, people, and power is central in understanding the meaning of place to smallholder farmers and climate change interaction

scholarly journals Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 2331-2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Descheemaeker ◽  
Simon J. Oosting ◽  
Sabine Homann-Kee Tui ◽  
Patricia Masikati ◽  
Gatien N. Falconnier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Livestock Systems ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation—A Question of Multilevel Governance?

10.1068/c0941 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Amundsen ◽  
Frode Berglund ◽  
Hege Westskog
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Adaptation Processes ◽  
Municipal Level

This paper analyses the results from two surveys which were sent to all Norwegian municipalities in 2007 and gives an overview of adaptation measures undertaken by local governments. Our analyses show that municipalities have more often invested in measures related to extreme precipitation and flooding than in measures for securing buildings and infrastructure against climate change. One key factor explaining their efforts is whether they have experienced extreme events. Hence adaptation efforts are mainly reactive. With a changing climate comes a greater demand for proactive adaptation processes, as well as knowledge of how adaptation policies and measures could be implemented successfully. This paper emphasises the importance of enhancing institutional capacity in order to address the challenges of climate change adaptation at the municipal level; and asserts that a multilevel governance framework is a way of advancing proactive adaptation and overcoming the identified barriers to adaptation.

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