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Integrating social protection and climate change adaptation: A review
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-08 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.626
Janna D. Tenzing _{1,

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Policymakers are increasingly interested in how social protection is evolving in the context of climate change. This review assesses what the literature tells us about its role in facilitating adaptation in lower income countries. It also explores how far thinking on an integrated “adaptive social protection” (ASP) agenda considers transforming the socioeconomic and political contexts where vulnerability to climate change originates. The review finds that research to date focuses on how instruments such as cash or asset transfers can protect the poor from shocks and stresses, prevent households from falling into poverty as a result of climate change, and promote climate‐resilient livelihoods. However, it cautions that such interventions must go beyond helping households to cope against shocks over short time horizons; they should enable the adoption of forward‐looking strategies for long‐lasting adaptation. Much less attention in the literature is given to whether social protection measures might have transformational effects for recipients. This is despite the fact that the earliest proponents of ASP favored a rights‐based approach to social protection to address issues of inequality and marginalization which are at the root of poverty and vulnerability to climate change. Although the role of social protection should not be overstated, it holds promise as a tool for building adaptive capacity. However, the potential of ASP to be truly transformational for its recipients by tackling the structural causes of vulnerability to climate change is not yet harnessed by policymakers. This constitutes a missed opportunity for the agenda to deliver on the international community's promise to “leave no one behind.”

中文翻译：

整合社会保护与适应气候变化：回顾

政策制定者对气候变化背景下社会保护的发展方式越来越感兴趣。这篇评论评估了文献告诉我们它在促进低收入国家适应气候变化中的作用。它还探讨了关于“适应性社会保护”（ASP）整体议程的思考如何考虑改变对气候变化脆弱性的根源的社会经济和政治环境。审查发现，迄今为止的研究集中在现金或资产转移等工具如何保护穷人免受冲击和压力，防止家庭因气候变化而陷入贫困以及促进具有气候恢复能力的生计。但是，它告诫说，此类干预措施不仅仅应帮助家庭在短期内应对冲击。它们应该使长远适应战略能够采用前瞻性战略。文献中很少关注社会保护措施是否可能对接受者产生变革性影响。尽管事实上，ASP的最早支持者赞成基于权利的社会保护方法，以解决贫困和易受气候变化影响的不平等和边缘化问题。尽管不应夸大社会保护的作用，但它有望成为建设适应能力的工具。但是，决策者尚未利用ASP解决潜在易受气候变化影响的结构性原因对其接受者进行真正变革的潜力。

更新日期：2019-11-08

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