SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION IN PATAGONIA TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE AND COUNTRY NDCS: A CASE STUDY OF A MIXED COASTAL URBANIZATION PROJECT

Madagascar is exposed to a variety of natural hazards, including seasonal cyclones, floods and droughts that have severe impacts on the national economy, mainly dependent on agriculture. Due to these problems, the security of livelihoods is threatened and although Madagascar people had the historic ability to cope with these threats, it is of prime importance to consider climate change adaptation in a more holistic manner in the face of climate change and variability. However, for adaptation to be appropriately enacted there is a need to understand how local context and conditions are. For that, this study aims to understand livelihood security as well as rural community’s perception to climate variability and change and their impacts in order to better address climate change adaptation. The first step is to understand how local livelihoods are characterized, what local conditions are, and how they are related to occurring changes and impacts through a case study in Alaotra Region in East Central Madagascar. An analysis of livelihood resources (human, natural, social, physical and financial capital), livelihood strategies and outcomes was coupled with an investigation of communities’ perception on the climate variability and impacts on their lives and livelihoods. Findings showed that livelihoods of local communities, living mainly from agriculture and fisheries, are threatened by a degrading environment and related impacts, exacerbated by a changing climate. Households are facing climate extremes which directly affect their livelihoods, already characterized by limited assets and entitlements. Outputs from this study are believed to further contribute to understand the factors that need to be considered to better address adaptation strategies based on the current vulnerability and climate variability, both at present time and in the future.

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Turning back the rising sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority

Organization Studies ◽

10.1177/01708406211024558 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 017084062110245

Author(s):

Vanessa Bowden ◽

Jean-Pascal Gond ◽

Daniel Nyberg ◽

Christopher Wright

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Climate Science ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Local Climate ◽

Property Prices ◽

Vested Interests ◽

The Relationship

Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate change science is translated into a self-referential theory focussed on property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement and theorization – to explain the relationship between theory performativity and power within a process of translation. This contributes to i) the performativity debate by showing how the constitution of power relations shapes theory performativity; ii) theories of power, by tracing the ways in which certain actors are able to enrol others and impact the authority of particular theories, and; iii) processes of translation by developing mechanisms for following the ways in which power and theory performativity interact. We conclude by arguing that a performative understanding of how power shapes beliefs is central to combat the failure to address climate change.

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Climate change perception among Spanish undergraduates. A reception study on the combination of the local, global, gain and loss frames

Communication & Society ◽

10.15581/003.34.1.57-75 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 57-75

Author(s):

Bienvenido León ◽

Maxwell-T. Boykoff ◽

Carmen Rodrigo-Jordán

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Change Perception ◽

Four Frames ◽

Reception Study ◽

Attitudes And Perceptions ◽

Climate Change Perception ◽

Gain Loss ◽

Climate Change Attitudes

Climate change attitudes and perceptions vary significantly among countries and cultures through a host of factors. Within media content about climate change, framing is one of the most relevant elements. This research interrogated how framing combinations across local-global and gain-loss frames influence attitudes and perceptions about climate change. We examined varying framing approaches through case-study experimentation with university students in Spain (N = 120). Students viewed one of four videos, each one based on a different combination of frames before answering a set of survey questions, with the aim of testing (i) how do the combinations of the local-global and the gain-loss frames affect the perception of the seriousness of climate change and (ii) how do combinations of the four frames affect support for action to address climate change. Results indicate that the participants scored similar values, regarding the seriousness of climate change and the need to take action, regardless of the video they watched. This means that interaction effects and other contextual factors (e.g., previous environmental concerns) may limit efficacy of deliberately introduced frames more than previously considered. These findings help to further deepen and nuance possible explanations for wider discursive interactions that comprise our attitudes and perceptions of climate change.

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Educational Innovation to Address Climate Change Issues

10.4018/978-1-7998-8645-7.ch013 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 263-278

Author(s):

Tania Ouariachi ◽

Menno Van Dam

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Higher Education ◽

Global Warming ◽

Learning Environment ◽

Educational Innovation ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Complex Issue ◽

The Core ◽

Core Concepts

In recent years, we have seen an emerging trend: the application of recreational escape rooms to educational purposes to engage students in their learning environment. This trend also applies to higher education and to the complex issue of climate change. The objectives of this chapter are to revise literature in this domain and to share a case study for a digital and educational escape room related to climate change: “Escape Global Warming.” This digital escape room integrates the core concepts of climate change and global warming into a game to familiarize participants with this topic and with actions that can be taken to reduce and counteract the effects of climate change while entertaining. After playing, students acknowledge to being more knowledgeable about the issue and more motivated to learn.

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Health system adaptation to climate change: a Peruvian case study

Health Policy and Planning ◽

10.1093/heapol/czaa072 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie Aracena ◽

Marco Barboza ◽

Victor Zamora ◽

Oswaldo Salaverry ◽

Doreen Montag

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Health Sector ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Health Impacts ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Country Analysis ◽

Regional Adaptation ◽

A Priority

Abstract Despite mitigation attempts, the trajectory of climate change remains on an accelerated path, with devastating health impacts. As a response to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change call for National Adaptation Plans, Peru has developed a national and decentralized regional adaptation plans. The purpose of this article is to understand the role and priority status of health within the adaptation planning and process. Peru was used as a case study to analyse the policy process in the creation of adaptation plans, encompassing the need to address climate change impacts on health with a particular focus on marginalized people. An actor, content and context policy analyses were conducted to analyse 17 out of 25 regional adaptation plans, which are available. The national adaptation plans (2002, 2015) do not include health as a priority or health adaptation strategies. In a decentralized health care system, regional plans demonstrate an increased improvement of complexity, systematization and structure over time (2009–17). In general, health has not been identified as a priority but as another area of impact. There is no cohesiveness between plans in format, content, planning and execution and only a limited consideration for marginalized populations. In conclusion, the regional departments of Peru stand on unequal footing regarding adapting the health sector to climate change. Findings in the strategies call into question how mitigation and adaption to climate change may be achieved. The lack of local research on health impacts due to climate change and a particular focus on marginalized people creates a policy vacuum. The Peruvian case study resembles global challenges to put health in the centre of national and regional adaptation plans. In-depth cross-country analysis is still missing but urgently needed to learn from other experiences.

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Actions for adaptation and mitigation to climate change: Madrid case study

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia ◽

10.17533/udea.redin.20200795 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Valentina Oquendo Di Cosola ◽

Jorge Adán Sánchez-Reséndiz ◽

Lorenzo Olivieri ◽

Francesca Olivieri

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Driving Force ◽

Social Economic ◽

Policy Design ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Potential Value ◽

Systemic Innovation ◽

The City ◽

Adaptation And Mitigation

Systemic innovation must be the driving force behind actions to transform cities to address climate change. It includes transformations of environmental, social, economic, financial, technical, regulatory, and governance nature, supporting the permanent change of cities. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), can be part of the tools to address the challenges ahead. This research aims to define a framework of action in cities for the implementation of NBS, demonstrating the importance of quantifying its benefits in environmental and socio-economic terms, to boost public policy design and investment in this field. This work is divided into two parts. The first part, analyses some of the European measures in the field of sustainable development in cities, focusing the research on the case of Madrid. And in the second part, some case studies are presented to reflect the measures and actions taken to promote the implementation of NBS in the city of Madrid. As a result, the potential levers of change for the implementation of NBS are identified, highlighting the importance of quantifying their effects to demonstrate the potential value that can be generated within cities.

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Local vs. Expert Perception of Climate Change

Cases on the Diffusion and Adoption of Sustainable Development Practices ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2842-7.ch003 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 44-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

April Karen Baptiste

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Mental Model ◽

Local Communities ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Local Setting ◽

Ultimate Objective ◽

Mental Modeling ◽

The Way

Local communities are known for having different and in some cases divergent perceptions of reality than experts. Particularly with respect to climate change, there is incongruence in the way that experts, namely scientists, view climate change and its effects and the way that this is perceived by laypersons, particularly those that are most impacted by climate change. But what are those differences and how exactly are these conceptualized? The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it examines the differences among three stakeholders (scientists, policy makers, and fishers) in their view of climate change and its impacts, using the case study of the fishing industry in Trinidad and Tobago. These views are mapped using the mental model approach and then compared in order to determine the best way to address climate change within a local setting. There is a clear difference in the way fishers in this study view climate change from the way local scientists view it. There is, however, some overlap between the perspective of the fishers and that of the policy maker. Moving from a position that all perspectives are equally important if there is to be a meaningful response to climate change, this chapter develops a set of procedures for mapping community perceptions of climate change on to those of scientists and policy makers. The second and ultimate objective is to look at the implication that the mental modeling approach has for diffusion, adoption, and technology transfer in response to climate change.

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Carbon Policy as a Strategy to Jointly Address Climate Change, Prevent Wildfires and Biodiversity Loss: A Portugal Case Study

10.11159/icesa21.115 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Renata Pacheco ◽

João Claro

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Biodiversity Loss ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Carbon Policy

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Indicators to Evaluate the Institutional Effectiveness of National Climate Financing Mechanisms

Forest and Society ◽

10.24259/fs.v4i2.10309 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 358-378

Author(s):

Muhammad Sheriffdeen ◽

Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat ◽

Perdinan Perdinan ◽

Monica Di Gregorio

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Institutional Effectiveness ◽

Monitoring And Evaluation ◽

Regulatory Framework ◽

Climate Finance ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Country Level ◽

Legal Foundation ◽

Transparency And Accountability

Over the past few decades, tackling climate change has persistently featured in international discussions, with the main issues centring on mobilising adequate global response and effectively coordinating and channelling this response at the sub-national levels. In order to effectively mobilize and harmonize resources to address climate change at country level, the idea of establishing national climate finance institutions (NCFIs) with the duty to mobilise, manage and allocate funds to implement climate change actions has gained prominence among developing countries. This study develops an indicator-based framework to evaluate the institutional effectiveness of the Indonesian Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) as a case study. Building on previous frameworks and principles of climate finance, a total of 21 indicators were identified, these indicators were categorized into five effectiveness components, which are: were identified, and these indicators were categorized into five effectiveness components, which include: legal and regulatory framework, fund mobilization and sustainability, fund management and allocation, monitoring and evaluation, and transparency and accountability. We find that the major and fundamental weakness of the ICCTF is its inability to adequately mobilize funds, while its strength is in management and allocation of available resources. Inclusion of the legal and regulatory framework component, which has been largely absent in previous studies, further enabled us to identify critical legal gaps in the operationalization of the ICCTF. While the current legal foundation of the ICCTF ensures transparency and accountability, it significantly constrains the ICCTFs flexibility and innovative potentials.

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Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e500072020-001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kaitlin Luna ◽

Kim Mills ◽

Brian Dixon ◽

Marcel de Sousa ◽

Christine Roland Levy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Address Climate Change

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