Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Neil Adger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Paul ◽  
Erika S. Weinthal ◽  
Marc F. Bellemare ◽  
Marc A. Jeuland
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Rural Ethiopia

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 723-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.C. Hagedoorn ◽  
L.M. Brander ◽  
P.J.H. van Beukering ◽  
H.M. Dijkstra ◽  
C. Franco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Small Island Developing States ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Adaptation

scholarly journals Adapting as usual: integrative and segregative institutions shaping adaptation to climate change in local public administrations

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTEO ROGGERO ◽  
ANDREAS THIEL
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Transaction Costs Economics ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

AbstractLocal administrations play a key role in delivering adaptation to climate change. To do so, they need to address collective action. Based on transaction costs economics, this paper explores the role of so-called integrative and segregative institutions in the way local administrations adapt – whether their different functional branches respond to climate change collectively rather than independently. Through a comparative analysis of 19 climate-sensitive local administrations in Germany, the paper shows that variation in the way local administrations structure their internal coordination determines the way they approach climate adaptation. Under integrative institutions, local administrations adjust prior coordination structures to accommodate adaptation. Under segregative institutions, administrations move towards integrative institutions in order to adapt, provided they already ‘feel’ climate change.

scholarly journals Farming along desire lines: Collective action and food systems adaptation to climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Soubry ◽  
Kate Sherren ◽  
Thomas F. Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

scholarly journals Enabling local adaptation to climate change: towards collective action in Flagler Beach, Florida, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 631-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Stephen Boda ◽  
Anne Jerneck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Action Strategy ◽  
Process Theories ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractLocal communities around the world are directly exposed to impacts of climate change. It is also clear that many local governments are politically and economically constrained in their capacity to implement needed adaptations. These constraints can restrict adaptation options to incremental, or even maladaptive, practices. At the same time, necessary transformational actions may remain out of reach for local actors. Building on five years of collaborative research with the city of Flagler Beach (FL, USA), we draw on political process theories to describe how incremental adaptation activities that are possible within current constraints can serve to build local capacity for instigating reforms at higher scales of social organization. We use the concept of a collective action strategy to conceptualize how context-specific barriers to adaptation can be overcome. From our analysis, an idealized multi-step process for designing collective action strategies is presented. The study advances scholarship on limits to adaptation beyond the diagnosis of barriers to action by taking steps towards developing context-specific strategies for overcoming these barriers.

scholarly journals Perception of and adaptation to climate change by farmers in the Nile basin of Ethiopia

2010 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. T. DERESSA ◽  
R. M. HASSAN ◽  
C. RINGLER
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Environmental Temperature ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Crop And Livestock Production

SUMMARYThe present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to climate change were: education of the head of the household, household size, whether the head of the household was male, whether livestock were owned, the use of extension services on crop and livestock production, the availability of credit and the environmental temperature.

Economic Significance of Social Capital

2011 ◽  
pp. 46-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Polishchuk ◽  
R. Menyashev
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Transmission Channels ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
The Impact

The paper deals with economics of social capital which is defined as the capacity of society for collective action in pursuit of common good. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between social capital and formal institutions, and the impact of social capital on government efficiency. Structure of social capital and the dichotomy between its bonding and bridging forms are analyzed. Social capital measurement, its economic payoff, and transmission channels between social capital and economic outcomes are discussed. In the concluding section of the paper we summarize the results of our analysis of the role of social capital in economic conditions and welfare of Russian cities.

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