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It’s not just about women: broadening perspectives in gendered environmental mobilities research Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Tatiana Castillo Betancourt, Caroline Zickgraf
Understanding how gendered differences manifest in mobilities linked to environmental change is part of understanding the human experience of environmental change. To synthesize empirical research ...
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Towards a livelihood-interdependence approach to framing adaptation in research and practice: evidence from farmers’ and herders’ relations in Northern Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Abdul-Salam Jahanfo Abdulai, Thomas A. Smucker
Changing farmer–herder relations (FHR) are central to the social dynamics of climate change adaptation in African drylands, involving conflict and cooperation. While substantial literature has buil...
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Cocoa vs. food crops: smallholder’s seasonal food access and extension support for climate adaptation in Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Laura E. Picot, Genia Hill, Bernice Sarpong, Alexander A. Obeng, Felix King Mensah, Kelvin Anim Adjei, Richard Kwadwo Adjei, Yadvinder Malhi, Constance L. McDermott
The food security implications of the production of cocoa compared to food crops and the phenomenon of the lean season amongst smallholder farmers have been well-researched. Yet, the literature has...
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Understanding the climate, migration, social protection nexus from a youth mobility dimension: can social protection address the drivers of climigration? Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Tomy Ncube, Lalhmangaihzuali Zualii, Una Murray, Nam Nguyen, Theresa Liebig, Alexandra Krendelsberger, Grazia Pacillo, Peter C. McKeown, Peter Läderach, Charles Spillane
Climate change is a threat multiplier for human migration, with those reliant on rain-fed agriculture being particularly vulnerable to climate change. This can manifest as increased poverty and pot...
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Do climate adaptation programmes potentially exacerbate rural inequality? Identifying beneficiaries of a drought mitigation scheme in Maharashtra, India Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Bill Pritchard, Madhushree Sekher, Chandana Maitra, Vicky Nandgaye
The adverse implications of climate change can exacerbate socially uneven distributions of vulnerability. Therefore, climate adaptation programs are maladaptive if benefits are captured by privileg...
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Local understanding of community disaster resilience in rural Cambodia: exercises of localism and lessons learned from villagers’ workshops Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Yunjeong Yang
Community disaster resilience has become a key concept in the field of climate change and development, but it often remains a third party’s terms (e.g. donors’ or researchers’) rather than being un...
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Epistemic justice as energy justice: reflections from a transnational collaboration on hydropower and Indigenous rights Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Sarah Kelly, Yngve Solli Heiret, Felipe Guerra-Schleef, Adriana Fajardo Mazorra, Nadine Lorini Formiga, Solange Acosta-Rodríguez, Maron Greenleaf
Addressing the climate crisis requires renewable energy, however, developing renewable energy should be equitable. In this article, we analyze a 15-year-old transnational hydroelectric power develo...
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Exploring the possible effects of social vulnerability components on terrorism Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Oğuzhan Pehlivan, Yunus Gökmen
Although many studies on social vulnerability focus on mitigating negative effects and crisis management in terms of the physical, economic, structural, and non-structural resilience of countries w...
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Introduction to the special section: unfolding a governance perspective on climate-related mobilities Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Lily Salloum Lindegaard, Neil Webster, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Marion Borderon
Attention to the linkages between climate change and human mobility practices – including immobility – has mounted as climate-related mobility becomes more evident. Research and policy engagement h...
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Land matters: how Indigenous land restitution can inform loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Joel E. Correia
Loss and damage (L&D) has emerged as a focus for climate justice within the international policy arena and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings. L&D proposals often centre...
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Epistemic silences, subversive politics: post-disaster economic assessments as technologies of persistent coloniality and route to an emancipatory climate justice agenda in the Caribbean Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Keston K. Perry
Economic analyses of losses and damages or post-disaster needs assessments (PDNAs) are silent about the longstanding reparatory claims related to the legacies of African enslavement, colonial viole...
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Political and legal implications of defining ‘particularly vulnerable’ for the loss and damage fund Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Guy Jackson, Sakshi
At COP27, Parties agreed to establish a fund for loss and damage. During the COP28 opening plenary, the Loss and Damage Fund was operationalised. Despite this progress, significant questions about ...
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Impact of economic growth, energy consumption, and trade openness on carbon emissions: evidence from the top 20 emitting nations Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Dithma Methmini, Nimesha Dharmapriya, Vilan Gunawardena, Sandali Edirisinghe, Ruwan Jayathilaka, Colinie Wickramaarachchi
The study focuses on the top 20 carbon emission-increasing nations across continents from 2000 to 2021 and the effects of gross domestic product, energy consumption, and trade openness on carbon em...
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The production, distribution and attribution of risk: a conceptual framework to climate-related risk management from the perspective of Arraigo in Bogotá, Colombia Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Duván López Meneses
This article offers a critical perspective on disaster risk management, arguing that the mainstream approaches are based on reductive epistemologies that constrain access to a dimension of knowledg...
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Exploring combined adaptation strategies to improve crop yield and smallholder farmers’ welfare Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Gbêtondji Melaine Armel Nonvide
This study investigates whether combinations of climate change adaptation strategies are associated with improved yield and smallholder farmers’ welfare, using a random sample of 200 maize producer...
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Climate risk adaptation through livestock insurance: evidence from a pilot programme in Nigeria Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Ifedotun V. Aina, Opeyemi E. Ayinde, Djiby R. Thiam, Mario J. Miranda
This study investigates the option of choosing index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) to mitigate the adverse effects associated with climate change in Kwara State, Nigeria. Previous studies indica...
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Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Samara Brock, Bhamini Jain
How do agrarian justice movements factor into the UNFCCC annual global climate Conference of the Parties (COP)? How have they appeared and erupted, been excluded, appropriated, and barely allowed –...
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The pull vs push approach to building climate change adaptive capacity: does innovation matter Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Dina M. Abdelzaher, Angie Abdel Zaher, Silvana Chambers
Good governance and innovation have been identified as important contributors towards the achievement of climate change goals but without an empirical cross-examination of their impact on climate a...
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Gendered implications for climate change adaptation among farmers in Madagascar Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Maya Moore, Meredith T. Niles
Climate change is impacting farmers worldwide; none more so than the millions of smallholder farmers who rely entirely on rain-fed agriculture. Adapting agricultural practices is an important strat...
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Toward vulnerability-responsive climate adaptation decision making: group inclusiveness as prime driver of local participation Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Paul Koomson, Isaac Koomson
Although inclusive local participation in climate adaptation is touted as the panacea to ensure that project outcomes serve the needs of the most vulnerable, there is no objective measure for group...
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A new scenario framework for equitable and climate-compatible futures Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Ankita Ranjan, Tejal Kanitkar, T. Jayaraman
This paper demonstrates a modelling approach and scenario framework for global burden-sharing, that foregrounds questions of climate and energy justice. We classify 134 countries into four developm...
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Pluralizing climate change adaptation: mapping discourses in Vietnam Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Wendy Conway-Lamb
The experiences and perspectives of all those affected by climate change must inform adaptation for reasons of effectiveness, legitimacy, and justice. Recognizing how different stakeholders charact...
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‘Who is going to talk about my grandad? Who is going to talk about me?’: Spatial politics in the advocacy of youth from the MENA region at COP 27 Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mark Ortiz, Charles Mankhwazi, Neeshad Shafi
In this article, we focus on the advocacy of youth from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in the U.N. COP process through interviews (n = 12) with youth from the MENA region who particip...
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Harnessing climate information service use for cocoa farming sustainability in Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Amadu Abdul-Mumin, Winnefred Mensah, Bright Oteng Adarkwa, Abigail Duah, Beatrice Offeibea Awuku
Climate change poses significant challenges to agricultural sectors worldwide, including the cocoa industry, which is highly vulnerable to climate variability. Understanding how climate information...
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Designing development programmes for climate change and uncertainty in Pacific Melanesia – the role for knowledge brokers Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 James R. A. Butler, Seona Meharg, Nicky Grigg, Emily J. Barbour, Hannah Barrowman, Danie Nilsson, Samantha Stone-Jovicich
With rapid globalization and climate change, development programmes face increasingly complex problems. New approaches to programme design and delivery are required, and knowledge brokers can contr...
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Impact assessment of sustainable agricultural practices on smallholder households food security: evidence from Burkina Faso Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Sita Kone, Ayşe Uzmay
This study investigates the factors affecting smallholder farmers’ decisions to adopt Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) and the impacts of single and multiple SAPs adoption on household foo...
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The framing of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge amidst climate change education in the COP27 cyberspace Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Jake W. Dean, Jeneva R. Kame Parks
We explore representations of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge (IEK/LEK) within the cyberspace of COP27 through a digital ethnography of the UNESCO-UNFCCC Webinar Series organized to suppl...
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Seasonal deprivation in the Sahel is large, widespread, and can be anticipated Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Jonathan Lain, Stephanie Brunelin
Shocks and seasonality may have profound effects on poor households’ wellbeing, especially in contexts such as the Sahel where livelihoods depend on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism. Understand...
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Just transformations in climate information services provision: perspectives of farmers in southern Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Rebecca Sarku, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Sabine Tröger
Smallholder farming in Ghana has undergone significant transformation with the advent of digital technologies, enabling numerous information providers to operate at different scales. However, there...
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Last mile delivery of climate adaptation in Uganda, the need to integrate and decentralize climate adaptation planning and implementation processes Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Miguel E. Leal, Claudia Heinze
Millions of people in Uganda are in need of urgent climate adaptation. The current central government-led top-down projects are inefficient and ineffective. These projects financed by multi-lateral...
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The cascading effects of climate change on children: extreme floods, family mobility and child well-being in Amazonia Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Thaís de Carvalho
Climate change is a systemic crisis with an important intergenerational dimension, as its detrimental effects are expected to escalate over time. While the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) prov...
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Structured timeline mapping as a data collection methodology: a new perspective for research on environmental adaptation Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Jelena Luyts, Nathalie Burnay, Etienne Piguet, Arona Fall, Issa Mballo, Florence De Longueville, Sabine Henry
The process of adaptation is dynamic and involves a temporal component. However, conventional methods of data collection have mostly been used in research on environmental adaptations and provide a...
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Exploring co-production in redirecting climate urbanism Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Anjali Karol Mohan, Gayathri Muraleedharan
Intensifying climate change and its impact on urban areas has led to the emergence of the climate urbanism model that advocates action at the intersection of urban development and climate change. T...
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Multinational companies and climate change and sustainable development debate: evidence from cement production in Nigeria Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Nelson Nkwor, Abel Ezeoha, Chibuike Uche, Akinyinka Akinyoade, Augustine Ujunwa
Using the Third-party Cost Theory and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis as well as a comparative case study design, this study examined multinational companies' commitments to energy efficiency and re...
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The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Charles Yaw Okyere, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Collins Asante-Addo, Lukas Kornher
Carbon farming has recently been advocated for as climate change and variability mitigation and/or adaptation strategy in global agriculture. In this study, we address an important research questio...
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External power dynamics and international climate governance in a crises-constrained world Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Anisha Nazareth, Dayoon Kim, Zoha Shawoo
This paper explores equity in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations during a time of multiple overlapping global crises. Drawing on a combination of semi-s...
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Bridging farmers’ non-cognitive and self-conscious emotional factors to cognitive determinants of climate change adaptation in southwest Iran Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Masoud Yazdanpanah, Seyedeh Bahar Homayoon, Tahereh Zobeidi, Kyle Maurice Woosnam, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber
Farm-level adaptation is an effective strategy to cope with global climate change. Farmers can effectively manage the negative effects of climate change with adaptive decisions. Cognitive, non-cogn...
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Examining the link between marginality and differential climate resilience among disaster-affected communities in southwestern Bangladesh Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Md. Abu Jobaer, Md. Zakir Hossain, Nur Mohammad Ha-Mim, Salman F. Haque, Khan Rubayet Rahaman
This article uses a case study of one of Bangladesh’s most disaster-prone subdistricts to examine the role of marginality in determining differential climate resilience. It used a quantitative rese...
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Migrating injustices in the small city: drought-impacted interstate migrant workers’ experiences in Tiruppur’s sanitation sector Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Nidhi Subramanyam, Dietrich Bouma
Climate stresses like droughts amplify economic precarity, pushing low-income, caste-oppressed communities across India to pursue temporary rural-urban migration as an adaptation strategy. This pap...
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‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Francis Xavier Jarawura, Joseph Kofi Teye, Nauja Kleist, Lily Salloum Lindegaard, David Quaye
While climate-related mobility has been part of life in Africa for centuries, existing literature on migration in the context of climate change generally lacks a historical perspective. This paper ...
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How to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation?: a stocktaking of Parties’ positions on measurement one year into the GlaSS work programme Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Danielle Falzon
In 2021, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change initiated a two-year work programme that, in part, would work to determine how to assess progress in achieving the Global Goal on ...
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Spatiotemporal changes of climatic disasters and population displacements in Africa Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Xinya Guo, Zhenke Zhang, Xingqi Zhang, Shouming Feng
Frequent global climatic disasters are posing a growing threat, especially in populous Africa. Understanding the intrinsic interactions between climatic disaster and the resulting affected populati...
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Gate-Cane: (Un)tying the knots between climate, cane, and early marriage in rural India Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Reetika Revathy Subramanian
In this article, I examine the multiple tensions and interactions between social reproduction and the trajectories of accumulation amidst climate change in India’s historically drought-prone Marath...
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The effects of precipitation shocks on rural labour markets and migration Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Mohammad H. Mostafavi-Dehzooei, Ghadir Asadi
The welfare of workers in rural areas is highly affected by agricultural output volatility, caused in part by weather shocks. A volatile source of income is an important factor in inducing migratio...
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Can Indigenous ecotheology save the world? Affinities between traditional worldviews and environmental sustainability Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Johannes M. Luetz
This article reviews and synthesises the conspicuous affinities between Indigenous knowledge, spirituality, and sustainable development. Development initiatives in countries of the majority world h...
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Managing retreat? An empirical reflection on adopting relocation initiatives as adaptation policy in Louisiana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Traci Birch, Marla Nelson, Renia Ehrenfeucht
Coastal Louisiana is experiencing climate-related impacts at rates substantially higher than other areas worldwide. Unique coastal communities face imminent impacts requiring adaptation and possibl...
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Conflict considerations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Plans Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elise Remling, Karen Meijer
Many places affected by violent conflict are also those with the lowest capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change and, therefore, some the most vulnerable. Consequently, it is here where...
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Climate information access and use in East and Southern Africa: identifying linkages between smallholder household characteristics and climate change adaptation Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Fanny Minjauw, Md Rasheduzzaman, Jiexuan Huang, Alicia Lozano, Philipp Baumgartner, Peter Dorward, Graham Clarkson, Alasdair Cohen
Climate change adversely impacts the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across East and Southern Africa. Climate-related information is assumed to support smallholder farmer decision-making and use...
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Climate resettlement and livelihood transformation in Rwanda: the case of Rweru Model Green Village Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Lisa Dale, Idowu Ajibade
This study investigates whether relocating rural communities from areas exposed to high climatic risks can be transformative and in what ways. Using the Rweru Model Green Village as a case study an...
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Cyclones and skinny dolphins: adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Matthew J. Colloff, James R.A. Butler, Nat Burke, John Morley, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Zelda Hilly, Richard B. Makini-Purcell, Jamal Namo, Remy Barua, Kathryn Michie, Minnie Rafe, Slade Ririmae
The Pacific region is experiencing accelerating global change with complex interactions amongst multiple drivers, yet the onus for urgent adaptation falls largely on communities. Proponents of adap...
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Humanitarian aid and the everyday invisibility of climate-related migration from Central America Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 John Doering-White, Alejandra Díaz de León, Carlos Arroyo Batista, Karen Flynn
This article examines how everyday practices of humanitarian documentation shape the visibility of climate-related migration from Central America. Based on participant observation and interviews wi...
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Beyond AOSIS: small island states’ presence and participation at COP27 Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Carola Klöck, Paula Castro, Simon Chin-Yee, Clara B. Gurresø, Charlotte Desmasures, Elsa Bouly, Diana Carrillo Risi, Kari de Pryck
Small islands are at the frontline of climate change – and of climate negotiations. Yet while the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has allowed small islands to collectively become a key play...
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Community-based early warning systems in a changing climate: an empirical evaluation from coastal central Vietnam Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Thi Dieu My Pham, Annegret H. Thieken, Philip Bubeck
Climate-related hazards severely threaten human lives and livelihoods and are projected to increase due to global warming. Early warning systems are essential in mitigating losses, and community-ba...
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Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27 Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Linn Burchert
Although art and cultural events have been part of the COPs from the very beginning they remain largely absent in the literature. Conversely, the symbolic, dramaturgical, performative, and narrativ...
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Sugarcane farmers’ perceptions of climate change and their “adaptation” methods in Fiji: adaptation for the industry or for their livelihood? Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Ravinal Prakash, Naohiro Nakamura
This article addresses how Fiji’s sugarcane farmers perceive climate change, attempt to mitigate the impact, and plan to adapt to sustain their livelihoods. Fiji’s sugar industry has recently been ...
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Violent transitions: towards a political ecology of coal and hydropower in India Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mukul Kumar
The concept of just transition is often defined as a process of including particular kinds of fossil fuel workers in the transition towards low-carbon energy. Missing from such liberal framings of ...
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Valuing a values-based approach for assessing loss and damage Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Douwe van Schie, Karen E. McNamara, Merewalesi Yee, Afsara Binte Mirza, Ross Westoby, Moleen Monita Nand, Rawnak Jahan Khan Ranon, Rachel Clissold, Simon Anderson, Saleemul Huq
Anthropogenic climate change is causing widespread losses and damages to what people value. To date, non-economic loss and damage assessments are commonly guided by predefined ‘types’ of non-econom...
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We used to ‘chase the rains’ away in the past: the role of cultural values and beliefs in shaping farmers’ perceptions of climate variability and change in North-west Ghana Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 George Dakurah, Prince Osei-wusu Adjei, Henny Osbahr
This paper explores how cultural values and beliefs influence farmers' perceptions of climate variability and change (CVC). Using Doggoh and Tie in North-west Ghana, the study reveals four narrativ...
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Feminization of hunger in climate change: linking rural women’s health and wellbeing in India Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Itishree Pattnaik, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
The links between climate change, food security and women’s wellbeing remain an under-investigated area. This paper contributes to this area through a thorough examination of how women experience f...
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Climate adaptation and resilience indices for the Caribbean region: an assessment of four leading indices Climate and Development (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Richard Grant, Shouraseni Sen Roy, Camilla Jimenez Zablah, Perla Aquino, Madisyn Simpson, Paula Viala
Countries of the Caribbean region share a common vulnerability and risk of disappearing if the dangers of climate change and global warming are not addressed collectively and urgently. Over the las...