scholarly journals Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation for Building Local Resilience in the Himalayas

10.5772/50608 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pashupati Chaudhary ◽  
Keshab Thapa ◽  
Krishna Lamsal ◽  
Puspa Raj ◽  
Netra Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Resilience

scholarly journals Strengthening Gender Responsiveness of the Green Climate Fund Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Programme in Namibia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10162
Author(s):  
Margaret Ndapewa Angula ◽  
Immaculate Mogotsi ◽  
Selma Lendelvo ◽  
Karl Mutani Aribeb ◽  
Aina-Maria Iteta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Green Climate Fund

Scholars of gender and climate change argue that gender-blind climate change actions could exacerbate existing inequalities and undermine sustained climate change adaptation actions. For this reason, since 2017, the Green Climate Fund placed gender among its key programming prerequisites, making it the first multilateral climate fund to do so worldwide. However, to date, no lessons to inform planned gender-responsive ecosystem-based interventions in Namibia have been drawn from community-based natural resource management. Thus, this paper aims to share key lessons regarding the way in which gender assessment is useful in enhancing equity in an ecosystem-based adaptation programme for the Green Climate Fund. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews and group discussions in the 14 rural regions of Namibia with 151 participants from 107 community-based natural resource management organisations (73.5:26.5; male:female ratio). The results identified gender imbalances in leadership and decision-making due to intersecting historic inequalities, ethnicity and geography, as well as other socio-cultural factors in local community-based natural resource management institutions. We also identified income disparities and unequal opportunities to diversify livelihoods, gendered differentiated impacts of climate change and meaningful participation in public forums. Overall, the assessment indicates that considering gender analysis at the initiation of a community-based climate change adaptation project is crucial for achieving resilience to climate change, closing the gender gap, building capacity to increase equity and empowering women in resource-dependent environments in Namibia and Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.

scholarly journals Quantifying farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies and the strategy determinants in Southwest China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-532
Author(s):  
Nani Maiya Sujakhu ◽  
Sailesh Ranjitkar ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Yufang Su ◽  
Jianchu Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to document the adaptation strategies developed by local farmers to adjust to climate change and related hazards in Lijiang Prefecture in Southwest China, and quantify the determinants of the adaptation measures. Design/methodology/approach The study conducted a household survey with 433 respondents in Lijiang to documents adaptation measures. The authors used a multivariate probit model to quantify five categories of adaptation measures against a set of household features, extension and information, resources, social network, financial assets and perception variables. Findings The most significant determinants consisted of information on early climate warnings and impending hazards, ownership to land and livestock, irrigation membership in community-based organisations, household savings, cash crop farming and perceptions of climate change and its related hazards. Adaptation strategies and policies highlighting these determinants could help to improve climate change adaptation in the region. Originality/value This study quantified the determinants of adaptive strategies and mapped important determinants for the region that will provide farmers with the appropriate resources and information to implement the best practices for adapting to climatic changes. The method and findings could be useful and easily replicable for future agriculture policies.

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