Für eine Feministische Politische Ökologie des Klimawandels

Social science climate research falls significantly short of the reflective power of feminist thought when it comes to the role of gender and its intersection with other categories of social difference and hierarchy in adaptation to climate change. This article seeks to narrow this gap by broadening the perspectives for an analysis of gender and adaptation to climate change from an intersectional and Political Ecology perspective. It argues for an multi-level framework that considers and relates three analytical levels: the political economic mechanisms of hierarchization, which shape the individual and collective scope of action through their material gender-, and class- or age specific effects, the effects of hegemonic representations and discourses, and the subject level in order to capture the identity political dynamics that contribute to unequal options for climate adaptation among subjects. It provides empirical illustrations from a case study in Mexico/Chiapas.

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

Journal of Institutional Economics ◽

10.1017/s1744137417000418 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 557-578 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems

Agriculture & Food Security ◽

10.1186/2048-7010-3-3 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Ola T Westengen ◽

Anne K Brysting

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Genetic Resources ◽

Arid Zone ◽

Seed Systems ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Crop Adaptation ◽

Semi Arid

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Climate Change, Adaptation Planning and Institutional Integration: A Literature Review and Framework

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su131910708 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (19) ◽

pp. 10708

Author(s):

Nate Kauffman ◽

Kristina Hill

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Urban Governance ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Adaptation Planning ◽

Institutional Processes ◽

Institutional Settings ◽

Planning Processes ◽

Future Work

The scale and scope of climate change has triggered widespread acknowledgement of the need to adapt to it. Out of recent work attempting to understand, define, and contribute to the family of concepts related to adaptation efforts, considerable contributions and research have emerged. Yet, the field of climate adaptation constantly grapples with complex ideas whose relational interplay is not always clear. Similarly, understanding how applied climate change adaptation efforts unfold through planning processes that are embedded in broader institutional settings can be difficult to apprehend. We present a review of important theory, themes, and terms evident in the literature of spatial planning and climate change adaptation to integrate them and synthesize a conceptual framework illustrating their dynamic interplay. This leads to consideration of how institutions, urban governance, and the practice of planning are involved, and evolving, in shaping climate adaptation efforts. While examining the practice of adaptation planning is useful in framing how core climate change concepts are related, the role of institutional processes in shaping and defining these concepts—and adaptation planning itself—remains complex. Our framework presents a useful tool for approaching and improving an understanding of the interactive relationships of central climate change adaptation concepts, with implications for future work focused on change within the domains of planning and institutions addressing challenges in the climate change era.

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Promote Nature-Based Solutions to adapt the environment to climate change – The LIFE ARTISAN project

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7103 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pierre-Antoine Versini ◽

Daniel Schertzer ◽

Mathilde Loury

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Public Space ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Low Flow ◽

The European Union ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Relevant Alternatives ◽

Institutional Contexts ◽

Research And Education ◽

The Impact

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) appear as some relevant alternatives to mitigate the consequences of climate change. For this reason, they are promoted for the implementation of the national plan for adaptation to climate change (PNACC) in France, in line with the Paris Agreement, the strategy of the European Union for adaptation to climate change and the French national strategy for biodiversity.Nevertheless, this ambitious goal of democratizing NBS poses some institutional and technical challenges because many obstacles remain to their implementation. Overcoming these shortcomings is the objective of the LIFE integrated project called ARTISAN (Achieving Resiliency by Triggering Implementation of nature-based Solutions for climate Adaptation at a National scale). Coordinated by the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), its consortium regroups several local authorities, technical, research and education institutes.For this purpose, ARTISAN is creating a framework promoting the implementation of NBS by improving scientific and technical knowledge about them, then by developing and disseminating relevant tools for project leaders (for the design, sizing, implementation and evaluation of ecosystem performance).To demonstrate that NBS can respond to a diversity of climatic, ecological and institutional contexts, 10 pilot sites will be monitored in metropolitan and overseas France. The concerned issues are for example the reduction of urban heat island by the de-waterproofing of the public space, the limitation of the impact of cyclonic episodes on the urbanized coastline overseas by promoting the restoration of the mangrove, and the decrease of agricultural water stress during the low flow period by the hydromorphological restoration of wetlands. These pilot sites will serve to develop, improve and validate operational tools, methods and trainings devoted to practitioners.

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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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Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding

Theoretical and Applied Genetics ◽

10.1007/s00122-020-03729-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rod J. Snowdon ◽

Benjamin Wittkop ◽

Tsu-Wei Chen ◽

Andreas Stahl

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Major Gene ◽

Stress Constraints ◽

Crop Productivity ◽

Yield Stability ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Conventional Breeding ◽

The Impact

AbstractMajor global crops in high-yielding, temperate cropping regions are facing increasing threats from the impact of climate change, particularly from drought and heat at critical developmental timepoints during the crop lifecycle. Research to address this concern is frequently focused on attempts to identify exotic genetic diversity showing pronounced stress tolerance or avoidance, to elucidate and introgress the responsible genetic factors or to discover underlying genes as a basis for targeted genetic modification. Although such approaches are occasionally successful in imparting a positive effect on performance in specific stress environments, for example through modulation of root depth, major-gene modifications of plant architecture or function tend to be highly context-dependent. In contrast, long-term genetic gain through conventional breeding has incrementally increased yields of modern crops through accumulation of beneficial, small-effect variants which also confer yield stability via stress adaptation. Here we reflect on retrospective breeding progress in major crops and the impact of long-term, conventional breeding on climate adaptation and yield stability under abiotic stress constraints. Looking forward, we outline how new approaches might complement conventional breeding to maintain and accelerate breeding progress, despite the challenges of climate change, as a prerequisite to sustainable future crop productivity.

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Climate change adaptation and precarity across the rural–urban divide in Cambodia: Towards a ‘climate precarity’ approach

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space ◽

10.1177/2514848619858155 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 899-921 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Nithya Natarajan ◽

Katherine Brickell ◽

Laurie Parsons

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Political Economy ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Structural Constraints ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

Geographical Context ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

An emerging body of work has critiqued the concept of climate adaptation, highlighting the structural constraints impeding marginalised communities across the Global South from being able to adapt. This article builds on such work through analysis of debt-bonded brick workers in Cambodia, formerly small farmers. It argues that the detrimental impacts of climate change experienced by farmers-turned-workers across the rural – urban divide is due to their precarity. In doing so, this article draws on a conceptualisation of precarity which recognises it as emerging from the specific political economy of Cambodia, and as something that is neither new, nor confined to conditions of labour alone. As such, in looking to precarity as a means of conceptualising the relations of power which shape impacts of climate change, we advance a ‘climate precarity’ lens as a means of understanding how adaptation to climate change is an issue of power, rooted in a specific geographical context, and mobile over the rural–urban divide.

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