scholarly journals THE SOCIAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROJECT OF ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN MARGINAL ENVIRONMENTS OF SAHL-ELTINA REGION, SINAI PENINSULA التقییم الاجتماعی لمشروع التکیف مع التغیرات المناخیة فی البیئات الهامشیة بمنطقة سهل الطینة، شبه جزیرة سیناء

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 1781-1798
Author(s):  
حسین تهامی ◽  
إیهاب هیکل ◽  
هند دیاب
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sinai Peninsula ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Social Assessment ◽  
Marginal Environments ◽  
The Social

Social Learning for Anticipatory Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence From a Community of Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato J. Orsato ◽  
José Guilherme Ferraz de Campos ◽  
Simone R. Barakat
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Sustainability Management ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The literature discussing social learning for Anticipatory Adaptation to Climate Change (AACC) has largely been developed at the societal level of analysis. However, how private companies build resilience and reduce damage to their private goods remains underexplored. Since climate change involves high levels of uncertainty and complexity, companies seeking to proactively adapt to climate change are required to search for specific and nontraditional knowledge. In order to contribute to this discussion, we investigated how a community of practice promotes social learning for AACC. We access the social learning emerging from the community of practice by developing a framework that can also be applied to other complex problems faced by companies. We found evidence of the centrality of social learning for the development of strategies and practices addressing grand corporate challenges, such as AACC. The results contribute to both the literature of social learning and the practice of sustainability management.

scholarly journals Social Representations Of Diseases Linked To Climate Change In The Population Of A Slum District: A Case Study From Haiti

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammcise Apply ◽  
Francklin Benjamin ◽  
Lucainson Raymond ◽  
Daphnée Michel ◽  
Daphenide St Louis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Rainy Weather ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vector Borne

Faced with the threats posed by climate change to global public health in the 21st century, the island of Haiti has a duty to inform the population and disseminate knowledge on the health consequences of the phenomenon. The effects of climate change are imminent for the country. In terms of health, the consequences will particularly accentuate the prevalence of endemic diseases, water-borne and infectious pathologies, malnutrition and undernourishment. Also, information on this issue must be widely disseminated through environmental and health education in order to raise awareness in the population and encourage them to modify their daily lifestyles through mitigation and adaptation. Previous work on strategies for popularizing scientific knowledge has shown that culture and poverty constitute obstacles to changes in behavior favoring mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The study of the Social Representations of the populations or social groups concerned makes it possible to discarded them.. From this point of view, this article questions and analyzes the social representations of vector pathologies including Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika among the residents of Jalousie, one of the vulnerable neighborhoods of the Metropolitan Region of Port-au-Prince (MRPP - Haiti). This work highlights the link established by the population of Jalousie between climate change and the transmission of the vector-borne diseases mentioned. It does this by considering elements of Haitian popular knowledge likely to build understanding that combines the prevention and symptomatology of these pathologies with knowledge of public hygiene and supernatural phenomena. The survey carried out on a representative sample of 121 residents of the Jalousie district, a slum area of MRPP, shows that vector-borne diseases are assimilated with epidemics and their transmission due to changes in the seasons (temperature change: hot weather, rainy weather in Haiti).

Toward Radical Risk Reduction and Revolutionary Adaptation: Climate Disasters, Agriculture, and Capitalist Modernity

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Schuhrke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
World Order ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Joint Policy ◽  
Climate Disasters

Disasters happen with increasing frequency, resulting in greater devastation, due to global warming. This happens all over the world, particularly in the Global South. Risk reduction and adaptation to climate change are vital strategies for ensuring safety, wellbeing, and perhaps survival, for millions of people. Decades of studies in the social sciences have led to the realization that disasters are more a product of structural inequality, and socially constructed vulnerability, than they are purely “natural” hazards. This is particularly evident when it comes to the age-old disaster of famine. While this suggests that risk reduction and adaptation strategies must be fused with radical politics, the United Nations’ joint policy concept of disaster risk reduction/climate change adaptation nevertheless seems firmly tied to the hegemonic world order of capitalist modernity. An alternative solution to climate change disasters would be a more radical, revolutionary set of projects, that I term radical risk reduction and revolutionary adaptation.

scholarly journals Defining Climate-Smart Forestry

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
Andrew Weatherall ◽  
Gert-Jan Nabuurs ◽  
Violeta Velikova ◽  
Giovanni Santopuoli ◽  
Bożydar Neroj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
C Sequestration ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Forestry Practices ◽  
C Storage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

AbstractClimate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is a developing concept to help policymakers and practitioners develop focused forestry governance and management to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Within the EU COST Action CA15226, CLIMO (Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions), a CSF definition was developed considering three main pillars: (1) adaptation to climate change, (2) mitigation of climate change, and (3) the social dimension. Climate mitigation occurs through carbon (C) sequestration by trees, C storage in vegetation and soils, and C substitution by wood. However, present and future climate mitigation depends on the adaptation of trees, woods, and forests to adapt to climate change, which is also driven by societal change.Criteria and Indicators (C & I) can be used to assess the climate smartness of forestry in different conditions, and over time. A suite of C & I that quantify the climate smartness of forestry practices has been developed by experts as guidelines for CSF. This chapter charts the development of this definition, presents initial feedback from forest managers across Europe, and discusses other gaps and uncertainties, as well as potential future perspectives for the further evolution of this concept.

DISSEMINATION AND USE OF INFORMATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF FARMERS IN MALUGA AND CHIBELA VILLAGES IN SEMI-ARID CENTRAL TANZANIA

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Elia ◽  
Stephen Mutula ◽  
Christine Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change And Variability ◽  
Semi Arid

This study was part of broader PhD research which investigated how access to, and use of, information enhances adaptation to climate change and variability in the agricultural sector in semi-arid Central Tanzania. The research was carried out in two villages using Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory and model to assess the dissemination of this information and its use by farmers in their adaptation of their farming practices to climate change and variability. This predominantly qualitative study employed a post-positivist paradigm. Some elements of a quantitative approach were also deployed in the data collection and analysis. The principal data collection methods were interviews and focus group discussions. The study population comprised farmers, agricultural extension officers and the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa project manager. Qualitative data were subjected to content analysis whereas quantitative data were analysed to generate mostly descriptive statistics using SPSS.  Key findings of the study show that farmers perceive a problem in the dissemination and use of climate information for agricultural development. They found access to agricultural inputs to be expensive, unreliable and untimely. To mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and variability on farming effectively, the study recommends the repackaging of current and accurate information on climate change and variability, farmer education and training, and collaboration between researchers, meteorology experts, and extension officers and farmers. Moreover, a clear policy framework for disseminating information related to climate change and variability is required.

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