Foreign Aid for Capacity Building to Address Climate Change

This chapter introduces the role of development as a self-interested policy pursued by industrialized states in an increasingly connected world. As such, it is differentiated from traditional geopolitical accounts of interactions between industrialized and developing states as well as from assertions that the increased focus on development stems from altruistic motivations. The concept of targeted development—pursuing development abroad when and where it serves the interests of the policymaking states—is introduced and defined. The issue areas covered in the book—foreign aid, trade agreements between industrialized and developing countries, and finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation—are introduced. The preference for bilateral, rather than multilateral, action is discussed.

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What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s153759272000479x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Lauren Honig ◽

Amy Erica Smith ◽

Jaimie Bleck

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Religious Groups ◽

State Repression ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

History Of ◽

Muslim Communities ◽

Critical Link

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of the most impacted populations. Yet even communities that are greatly concerned about climate change may remain on the sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with a long history of environmental activism and high vulnerability to climate change. We foreground efficacy—a belief that one’s actions can create change—as a critical link transforming concern into action. However, that link is often missing for marginalized ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Analyzing interviews, focus groups, and survey data, we find that Muslims express much lower efficacy to address climate change than other religious groups; the gap cannot be explained by differences in science beliefs, issue concern, ethnicity, or demographics. Instead, we attribute it to understandings of marginalization vis-à-vis the Kenyan state—understandings socialized within the local institutions of Muslim communities affected by state repression.

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Capacity Building vs Climate Change. A laboratory for the community in transition and the resilient city in the southern suburb of Reggio Calabria

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032040 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 588 ◽

pp. 032040

Author(s):

A Leuzzo ◽

C Nava

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Capacity Building

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Behaviour change to address climate change

Current Opinion in Psychology ◽

10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lorraine Whitmarsh ◽

Wouter Poortinga ◽

Stuart Capstick

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Behaviour Change ◽

Address Climate Change

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Special Issue “Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change (Pandemics and Other Shocks and Hazards): Possible Transformations”

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8206

Author(s):

Andrew Spring ◽

Erin Nelson ◽

Irena Knezevic ◽

Patricia Ballamingie ◽

Alison Blay-Palmer

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Systems ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sustainable Food Systems ◽

Sustainable Food ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

The World

Since we first conceived of this Special Issue, “Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change—Possible Transformations”, COVID-19 has turned the world upside down [...]

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