The Role of Community Resilience in Adaptation to Climate Change: The Urban Poor in Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract Background Climate change and its impact have taken centre stage in contemporary political economic discourse. Climate change is posing complex problems that far outweighs the solutions suggested by the conventional analytical tools used for guiding responses to major environmental challenges. This is particularly the case in developing countries like Nigeria. Unsurprisingly the concept of community resilience towards climate change has received a great deal of attention from researchers and policy makers. However, community resilience is a contested concept, which leads to disagreement about the methods of achieving it. The nature of community resilience makes the measurement of the efficiency of the policies designed to increase community resilience problematic, particularly in developing countries where limited funds must be prioritised. Methods The research presented uses a Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) to identify how experts in Nigeria define community resilience and reach a consensus on its measurement in Nigeria’s context and other developing nations. The data collection involved three rounds of Delphi with a panel of 21 experts, the first round employed semi-structured interviews, following the exploratory Delphi approach, and subsequent rounds employed online surveys. Findings: The findings indicate that there is a process of stages that communities need to go through to become resilient to climate change. These begin with coping with climate change, followed by adaptation to climate change with the final stage being transformation in the face of climate change. Twenty indicators are identified categorised under eight elements that are suitable for measuring community resilience at the different stages of this process. It is interesting to note that the experts in Nigeria who participated in the study excluded notions of transformation in their conceptualisation of community resilience illustrating a potential gap in their perceptions of the requirements for how communities can become fully resilient. Conclusion This research provides a method of prioritising specific, measurable indicators to inform policies designed to reduce the impacts of climate change by supporting community resilience in the context of developing countries with limited funding.

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Adaptation to climate change: air-conditioning and the role of remittances

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3970613 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Teresa Randazzo ◽

Filippo Pavanello ◽

Enrica De Cian

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Air Conditioning ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change

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The Role of Codes, Standards, and Related Instruments in Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change

Advances in Global Change Research - Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations ◽

10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_17 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 243-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Steenhof ◽

Erik Sparling

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change

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Physiological and morphological effects of climate change

Effects of Climate Change on Birds ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198824268.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 120-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andrew E. McKechnie

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Body Mass ◽

High Temperatures ◽

Arid Zone ◽

Future Research ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Heat Events

The direct impacts of higher temperatures on birds are manifested over timescales ranging from minutes and hours to years and decades. Over short timescales, acute exposure to high temperatures can lead to hyperthermia or dehydration, which among arid-zone species occasionally causes catastrophic mortality events. Over intermediate timescales of days to weeks, high temperatures can have chronic sub-lethal effects via body mass loss or reduced nestling growth rates, negatively affecting sev eral fitness components. Long-term effects of warming manifested over years to decades involve declining body mass or changes in appendage size. Key directions for future research include elucidating the role of phenotypic plasticity and epigenetic processes in avian adaptation to climate change, examining the role of stress pathways in mediating responses to heat events, and understanding the consequences of higher temperatures for species that traverse hot regions while migrating.

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Community-based adaptation to climate change in small island developing states: an analysis of the role of social capital

Climate and Development ◽

10.1080/17565529.2018.1562869 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 723-734 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

L.C. Hagedoorn ◽

L.M. Brander ◽

P.J.H. van Beukering ◽

H.M. Dijkstra ◽

C. Franco ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Social Capital ◽

Small Island ◽

Small Island Developing States ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Adaptation

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Assessing Community Resilience to Urban Flooding in Multiple Types of the Transient Population in China

Water ◽

10.3390/w12102784 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 2784 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wenping Xu ◽

Lingli Xiang ◽

David Proverbs

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Back Propagation ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Back Propagation Neural Network ◽

Disaster Resilience ◽

Urban Flooding ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Different Types

While various measures of mitigation and adaptation to climate change have been taken in recent years, many have gradually reached a consensus that building community resilience is of great significance when responding to climate change, especially urban flooding. There has been a dearth of research on community resilience to urban floods, especially among transient communities, and therefore there is a need to conduct further empirical studies to improve our understanding, and to identify appropriate interventions. Thus, this work combines two existing resilience assessment frameworks to address these issues in three different types of transient community, namely an urban village, commercial housing, and apartments, all located in Wuhan, China. An analytic hierarchy process–back propagation neural network (AHP-BP) model was developed to estimate the community resilience within these three transient communities. The effects of changes in the prioritization of key resilience indicators under different environmental, economic, and social factors was analyzed across the three communities. The results demonstrate that the ranking of the indicators reflects the connection between disaster resilience and the evaluation units of diverse transient communities. These aspects show the differences in the disaster resilience of different types of transient communities. The proposed method can help decision makers in identifying the areas that are lagging behind, and those that need to be prioritized when allocating limited and/or stretched resources.

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The Voices of Local NGOs in Climate Change Issues: Examples from Climate Vulnerable Nations

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.5130/ccs.v10.i3.6019 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 63-80

Author(s):

Ian M McGregor ◽

Hilary Yerbury ◽

Ahmed Shahid

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

At Risk ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Knowledge Brokering ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Small Countries ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Nationally Determined Contributions

The contributions of small local non-government organisations (NGOs) in countries at risk from climate change to knowledge creation and action on climate change are rarely considered. This study sought to remedy this by focusing on NGOs in member countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). Analysing data from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), NGO websites and email correspondence with NGO staff through a knowledge brokering typology, this study examines the ways in which local NGOs in five members of the CVF (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Kiribati, Nepal and Tuvalu) take action, generate new knowledge and understandings and contribute to the plans and actions of their government and the international community. The study found that local NGOs are involved in the creation of new knowledge both at the scientific and community level and engage in actions to support adaptation to climate change. However, there are differences in the approaches they take when making contributions to scientific knowledge and climate change debates. The findings of this study suggest the need to reconceptualise the role of local NGOs in small countries at risk from climate change.

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