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Marte Winsvold - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation at the local level
Local Environment, 2015Co-Authors: Trude Rauken, Per Kristen Mydske, Marte WinsvoldAbstract:National authorities in many countries aim at having Climate Change Adaptation mainstreamed into existing policy domains in order to achieve coherence and synergies, and to avoid mal-Adaptation. Because of local variations in Climate Change impacts, the lion's share of Climate Adaptation work will have to take place at the local level. This means also that the mainstreaming process needs to occur locally. This article examines the mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation into existing sectors in five Norwegian municipalities. Applying theories of mainstreaming and policy integration we find that policy development is slower, but perhaps more robust in the municipalities that have chosen a horizontal, cross-sectoral approach to mainstreaming than in the municipalities that have chosen a vertical sector approach to mainstreaming.
Trude Rauken - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation at the local level
Local Environment, 2015Co-Authors: Trude Rauken, Per Kristen Mydske, Marte WinsvoldAbstract:National authorities in many countries aim at having Climate Change Adaptation mainstreamed into existing policy domains in order to achieve coherence and synergies, and to avoid mal-Adaptation. Because of local variations in Climate Change impacts, the lion's share of Climate Adaptation work will have to take place at the local level. This means also that the mainstreaming process needs to occur locally. This article examines the mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation into existing sectors in five Norwegian municipalities. Applying theories of mainstreaming and policy integration we find that policy development is slower, but perhaps more robust in the municipalities that have chosen a horizontal, cross-sectoral approach to mainstreaming than in the municipalities that have chosen a vertical sector approach to mainstreaming.
Sara Hughes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just Climate Change Adaptation in legacy cities
Environmental Science & Policy, 2020Co-Authors: Sara HughesAbstract:Abstract Climate Change Adaptation presents an opportunity for legacy cities to address growing social, racial, and economic inequality, or engage in just Climate Change Adaptation. While the importance of just and equitable Climate Change Adaptation is well understood, the policy and politics that underlie such efforts are less well understood. This paper focuses on the development of just Climate Change Adaptation strategies in legacy cities, particularly those in the Great Lakes region of the U.S., where the challenges and opportunities for Climate Change Adaptation are particularly high. Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio are used as illustrative case studies. These cities are two of the only two legacy cities of the Great Lakes region to have developed formal and explicit Adaptation plans, and foregrounded justice and equity early in the process. A review of planning documents, and interviews with key stakeholders, in the two cities are used to identify the components of justice being included in Climate Change Adaptation planning, the drivers or motivations for foregrounding justice in their Adaptation planning, and the policy tools being used or developed to reach these goals. The findings reveal an awareness among stakeholders and decision makers in both cities of the importance of addressing inequality in Climate Change Adaptation, some attention to justice principles in the Adaptation plans themselves, and a diverse set of policy tools emerging to support this work. Importantly, despite relatively modest ambitions for Climate Change Adaptation, both cities face implementation challenges that are likely to be common among legacy cities of the region.
Edosa Tadesa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Review on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Ethiopia
International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science, 2020Co-Authors: Edosa TadesaAbstract:Almost all farmers in Ethiopia were depending on rainfall for their agricultural activities. Even if farmers depend on rainfall, Climate Change, especially drought highly affect the productivity of farmers in the country in general. The main objective of this review is to review household perception on Climate Change, Adaptation strategies and determinants of choice of Climate Change Adaptation strategies in Ethiopia. For this review secondary data was collected from published and unpublished documents related to this topic and organized. From the reviewed published and unpublished documents, smallholder farmers perceive Climate Change through local knowledge and their past experience rather than scientifically identified perception using GIS and remote sensing technology, farmers employed different Climate Change Adaptation strategies such as cultivating different crops, planting different crop varieties, changing planting dates, use of soil and water conservation techniques, conservation agriculture practices and engaging in non-farm income activities. From the review result access to information, farming experience, number of households in one village, distance to main market, and income of household, and agro-ecological settings influenced farmers’ Adaptation choices to Climate Change.
Jan Mcdonald - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Place influences in framing and understanding Climate Change Adaptation challenges
Local Environment, 2015Co-Authors: Anna Lyth, Andrew Harwood, Alistair J. Hobday, Jan McdonaldAbstract:The Climate Change literature emphasises the importance of geographical understanding for guiding Adaptation, in which “place” perspectives are particularly significant. After “scale”, the term “place” within the Climate Change Adaptation literature is most often implicitly used in reference to a delineated and localised region, such as place-based risk assessment or place-based Adaptation planning. Here, we use a case study of the Australian island-state of Tasmania to demonstrate the importance and particularity of place in the formation of Climate Change Adaptation issues, problem definition and framing, and the dynamics of knowledge and praxis development across a range of research and industry sectors. We describe the significance of the place Tasmania with regard to its geographical location; its portrayal as an island place; and its cultural meaning and relations. Through a synthesis of Climate Change Adaptation research, policy literature and engagement with researchers and stakeholders, we identi...