[PDF][PDF] The role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change

A Agrawal - 2008 - documents1.worldbank.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS IN
LIVELIHOODS ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change will be pivotal in …

Linking smallholder farmer climate change adaptation decisions to development

M Burnham, Z Ma - Climate and Development, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper synthesizes peer-reviewed literature on smallholders' adaptation to climate
change in developing countries. The synthesis shows that multiple definitions of adaptation …

Institutional change, climate risk, and rural vulnerability: Cases from Central Mexico

H Eakin - World development, 2005 - Elsevier
A multiscalar, multistressor assessment of rural vulnerability is presented, illustrating how
globalization, market liberalization, and climatic risk simultaneously structure the livelihood …

Local capacity, village governance, and the political economy of rural development in Indonesia

A Bebbington, L Dharmawan, E Fahmi… - World …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper develops a framework for conceptualizing local capacity to address village level
livelihood and governance problems. The framework is based on an analysis of asset …

From accessing to assessing forecasts: an end-to-end study of participatory climate forecast dissemination in Burkina Faso (West Africa)

C Roncoli, C Jost, P Kirshen, M Sanon, KT Ingram… - Climatic Change, 2009 - Springer
This study compares responses to seasonal climate forecasts conducted by farmers of three
agro-ecological zones of Burkina Faso, including some who had attended local level …

What can we learn from the practice of development-forced displacement and resettlement for organised resettlements in response to climate change?

B Wilmsen, M Webber - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
It is anticipated that environmental stress induced by climate change may displace some
people and communities. While many people will be able to respond to such impacts, there …

Sahel pastoralists: opportunism, struggle, conflict and negotiation. A case study from eastern Niger

B Thébaud, S Batterbury - Global environmental change, 2001 - Elsevier
The livelihoods and life chances of pastoral communities in the West African Sahel are
linked to: the complexity of the activities they must engage in to insure access to resources; …

[图书][B] Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management

L Mehta, M Leach, P Newell, I Scoones… - 1999 - researchgate.net
The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources
management contexts. It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus …

Local perceptions and regional climate trends on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso

CT West, C Roncoli, F Ouattara - Land degradation & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Due to devastating droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, climatic and environmental change in
the West African Sahel has attracted a great deal of scientific research. While many of these …

[HTML][HTML] 'To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger'–Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural …

JE Krauss, L Artur, D Brockington, E Castro Jr… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel restrictions
have been introduced to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (hereinafter Covid). In …