π§¨π§¨Part III of the soon-to-end thread: Why is adaptation more than risk management & climate proofing? Why are measuring approaches such as indicators not going to capture progress?
TLDR: What is implemented as 'adaptation' is not going to help people adapt to cc.
TLDR: What is implemented as 'adaptation' is not going to help people adapt to cc.
Part II ended βΆοΈ vulnerability was not the focus of most adaptation projects by the mid/late 2000s. Karen @cCHANGE_OBrien et al's paper on Contextual vs Outcome Vulnerability helped demonstrate the consequences of these different views on vulnerability 2/ tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108β¦
Scholars addressed the idea of sustainable adaptation in a Special Issue in @ClimDevJournal in 2011, including in the seminal paper by @sirieriksen7 et al 'When not every response to climate change is a good one' 3/ doi.org/10.3763/cdev.2β¦
Now also the work on #maladaptation was beginning to emerge. More on maladaptation is in the thread below. It felt like it was desperate to get some clarity on how adaptation projects were leading to maladaptation 4/
https://twitter.com/schipper_lisa/status/1500143198584324102
So - as Atteridge and Remling asked in 2017 - is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it? doi.org/10.1002/wcc.500. This question is key. What are the donor practices that appear to be influencing this process? Some scholars point to the funding architecture asποΈ 5/
More recent work, such as Eriksen et al (2021) doi.org/10.1016/j.worl⦠and @LeaBerrangFord et al (2021) nature.com/articles/s4155⦠has reinforced that most project appear to remain entrenched in an impacts focus, steering away from addressing vulnerability. 6/
SO: we have ended up with projects that only scantily address the real needs; they don't go far enough in incorporating power & equity & justice questions; don't touch on complex socio-cultural structures, eg gender norms; and all this to avoid being labelled development. 7/
There is no question that risk management strategies such as early warning, flood protection, etc are important for immediately saving lives. But when we are faced with a development deficit that is closely linked to the adaptation deficit, we need to ask: where do we start? 8/
IN SUM: In discussions about Pakistan floods, the most pressing question is *NOT* 'who is responsible/who should pay??' but *WHAT* should be funded (there is no doubt that many are to blame for the floods, and they should pay). Is it climate response or development? 9/and FIN. π€
@LeaBerrang you have two profiles so I tagged the wrong one (?)
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