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1. Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development

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Eriksen, Siri H., Simpson, Nicholas P., Glavovic, Bruce, Ley, Debora, Carr, Edward R., Fernández-Carril, Luis, Hayward, Bronwyn, Morecroft, Mike D., Pathak, Minal, Pereira, Joy Jacqueline, Pörtner, Hans-Otto, Roberts, Debra C., Ruane, Alex C., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Roberto, Schipper, E. Lisa F., Solecki, William, Stringer, Lindsay C., Totin, Edmond, Birt, Arlene, and Degvold, Frode

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2024
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7. Beyond the Single Story of Climate Vulnerability: Centring Disabled People and Their Knowledges in "Care-Full" Climate Action.

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Bell, Sarah L, Jodoin, Sébastien, Bush, Tanvir N., Crow, Liz, Eriksen, Siri H., Geen, Emma, Keogh, Mary, and Yeo, Rebecca

Subjects
CLIMATE change adaptation, CLIMATE change, CLIMATE justice, CLIMATE change mitigation, ENVIRONMENTAL justice
Abstract

Health. Disability. Vulnerability. These words are often used when discussing the risks of climate disruption. These discussions warn of the potential for climate impacts to "undermine 50 years of gains in public health" (as stated by the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change). Increasingly, such discussions also acknowledge climate injustice, examining who will benefit or lose out from climate change, how and why. The embodied vulnerability of disabled people is often assumed within such discussions, with less consideration of the social, economic or political conditions that create this vulnerability. By bringing disability justice and disability studies into correspondence with care, environmental and climate justice scholarship, this reflective paper challenges the master narratives that blur differentiated experiences of disability and climate impacts into a single story of inevitable vulnerability. Recognising disabled people as knowers, makers and agents of change, it calls for transformative climate action, underpinned by values of solidarity, mutuality and care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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8. Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development

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Stein, Penelope J S, primary, Stein, Michael Ashley, additional, Groce, Nora, additional, Kett, Maria, additional, Akyeampong, Emmanuel K, additional, Alford, Willliam P, additional, Chakraborty, Jayajit, additional, Daniels-Mayes, Sheelagh, additional, Eriksen, Siri H, additional, Fracht, Anne, additional, Gallegos, Luis, additional, Grech, Shaun, additional, Gurung, Pratima, additional, Hans, Asha, additional, Harpur, Paul, additional, Jodoin, Sébastien, additional, Lord, Janet E, additional, Macanawai, Setareki Seru, additional, McClain-Nhlapo, Charlotte V, additional, Mezmur, Benyam Dawit, additional, Moore, Rhonda J, additional, Muñoz, Yolanda, additional, Patel, Vikram, additional, Pham, Phuong N, additional, Quinn, Gerard, additional, Sadlier, Sarah A, additional, Shachar, Carmel, additional, Smith, Matthew S, additional, and Van Susteren, Lise, additional

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2024
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9. IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

Author

Calvin, Katherine, additional, Dasgupta, Dipak, additional, Krinner, Gerhard, additional, Mukherji, Aditi, additional, Thorne, Peter W., additional, Trisos, Christopher, additional, Romero, José, additional, Aldunce, Paulina, additional, Barret, Ko, additional, Blanco, Gabriel, additional, Cheung, William W.L., additional, Connors, Sarah L., additional, Denton, Fatima, additional, Diongue-Niang, Aïda, additional, Dodman, David, additional, Garschagen, Matthias, additional, Geden, Oliver, additional, Hayward, Bronwyn, additional, Jones, Christopher, additional, Jotzo, Frank, additional, Krug, Thelma, additional, Lasco, Rodel, additional, Lee, Yune-Yi, additional, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, additional, Meinshausen, Malte, additional, Mintenbeck, Katja, additional, Mokssit, Abdalah, additional, Otto, Friederike E.L., additional, Pathak, Minal, additional, Pirani, Anna, additional, Poloczanska, Elvira, additional, Pörtner, Hans-Otto, additional, Revi, Aromar, additional, Roberts, Debra C., additional, Roy, Joyashree, additional, Ruane, Alex C., additional, Skea, Jim, additional, Shukla, Priyadarshi R., additional, Slade, Raphael, additional, Slangen, Aimée, additional, Sokona, Youba, additional, Sörensson, Anna A., additional, Tignor, Melinda, additional, van Vuuren, Detlef, additional, Wei, Yi-Ming, additional, Winkler, Harald, additional, Zhai, Panmao, additional, Zommers, Zinta, additional, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, additional, Johnson, Francis X., additional, Pachauri, Shonali, additional, Simpson, Nicholas P., additional, Singh, Chandni, additional, Thomas, Adelle, additional, Totin, Edmond, additional, Alegría, Andrés, additional, Armour, Kyle, additional, Bednar-Friedl, Birgit, additional, Blok, Kornelis, additional, Cissé, Guéladio, additional, Dentener, Frank, additional, Eriksen, Siri, additional, Fischer, Erich, additional, Garner, Gregory, additional, Guivarch, Céline, additional, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, additional, Hansen, Gerrit, additional, Hauser, Mathias, additional, Hawkins, Ed, additional, Hermans, Tim, additional, Kopp, Robert, additional, Leprince-Ringuet, Noëmie, additional, Lewis, Jared, additional, Ley, Debora, additional, Ludden, Chloé, additional, Niamir, Leila, additional, Nicholls, Zebedee, additional, Some, Shreya, additional, Szopa, Sophie, additional, Trewin, Blair, additional, van der Wijst, Kaj-Ivar, additional, Winter, Gundula, additional, Witting, Maximilian, additional, Birt, Arlene, additional, and Ha, Meeyoung, additional

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2023
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10. IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

Author

Lee, Hoesung, Calvin, Katherine, Dasgupta, Dipak, Krinner, Gerhard, Mukherji, Aditi, Thorne, Peter, Trisos, Christopher, Romero, José, Aldunce, Paulina, Barret, Ko, Blanco, Gabriel, Cheung, William W.L., Connors, Sarah L., Denton, Fatima, Diongue-Niang, Aïda, Dodman, David, Garschagen, Matthias, Geden, Oliver, Hayward, Bronwyn, Jones, Christopher, Jotzo, Frank, Krug, Thelma, Lasco, Rodel, Lee, Yune-Yi, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Meinshausen, Malte, Mintenbeck, Katja, Mokssit, Abdalah, Otto, Friederike E.L., Pathak, Minal, Pirani, Anna, Poloczanska, Elvira, Pörtner, Hans-Otto, Revi, Aromar, Roberts, Debra C., Roy, Joyashree, Ruane, Alex C., Skea, Jim, Shukla, Priyadarshi R., Slade, Raphael, Slangen, Aimée, Sokona, Youba, Sörensson, Anna A., Tignor, Melinda, van Vuuren, Detlef, Wei, Yi-Ming, Winkler, Harald, Zhai, Panmao, Zommers, Zinta, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Johnson, Francis X., Pachauri, Shonali, Simpson, Nicholas P., Singh, Chandni, Thomas, Adelle, Totin, Edmond, Arias, Paola, Bustamante, Mercedes, Elgizouli, Ismail, Flato, Gregory, Howden, Mark, Méndez-Vallejo, Carlos, Pereira, Joy Jacqueline, Pichs-Madruga, Ramón, Rose, Steven K., Saheb, Yamina, Sánchez Rodríguez, Roberto, Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana, Xiao, Cunde, Yassaa, Noureddine, Alegría, Andrés, Armour, Kyle, Bednar-Friedl, Birgit, Blok, Kornelis, Cissé, Guéladio, Dentener, Frank, Eriksen, Siri, Fischer, Erich, Garner, Gregory, Guivarch, Céline, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, Hansen, Gerrit, Hauser, Mathias, Hawkins, Ed, Hermans, Tim, Kopp, Robert, Leprince-Ringuet, Noëmie, Lewis, Jared, Ley, Debora, Ludden, Chloé, Niamir, Leila, Nicholls, Zebedee, Some, Shreya, Szopa, Sophie, Trewin, Blair, van der Wijst, Kaj-Ivar, Winter, Gundula, Witting, Maximilian, Birt, Arlene, Ha, Meeyoung, Kim, Jinmi, Haites, Erik F., Jung, Yonghun, Stavins, Robert, Orendain, Dan Jezreel A., Ignon, Lance, Park, Semin, Park, Youngin, Lee, Hoesung, Calvin, Katherine, Dasgupta, Dipak, Krinner, Gerhard, Mukherji, Aditi, Thorne, Peter, Trisos, Christopher, Romero, José, Aldunce, Paulina, Barret, Ko, Blanco, Gabriel, Cheung, William W.L., Connors, Sarah L., Denton, Fatima, Diongue-Niang, Aïda, Dodman, David, Garschagen, Matthias, Geden, Oliver, Hayward, Bronwyn, Jones, Christopher, Jotzo, Frank, Krug, Thelma, Lasco, Rodel, Lee, Yune-Yi, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Meinshausen, Malte, Mintenbeck, Katja, Mokssit, Abdalah, Otto, Friederike E.L., Pathak, Minal, Pirani, Anna, Poloczanska, Elvira, Pörtner, Hans-Otto, Revi, Aromar, Roberts, Debra C., Roy, Joyashree, Ruane, Alex C., Skea, Jim, Shukla, Priyadarshi R., Slade, Raphael, Slangen, Aimée, Sokona, Youba, Sörensson, Anna A., Tignor, Melinda, van Vuuren, Detlef, Wei, Yi-Ming, Winkler, Harald, Zhai, Panmao, Zommers, Zinta, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Johnson, Francis X., Pachauri, Shonali, Simpson, Nicholas P., Singh, Chandni, Thomas, Adelle, Totin, Edmond, Arias, Paola, Bustamante, Mercedes, Elgizouli, Ismail, Flato, Gregory, Howden, Mark, Méndez-Vallejo, Carlos, Pereira, Joy Jacqueline, Pichs-Madruga, Ramón, Rose, Steven K., Saheb, Yamina, Sánchez Rodríguez, Roberto, Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana, Xiao, Cunde, Yassaa, Noureddine, Alegría, Andrés, Armour, Kyle, Bednar-Friedl, Birgit, Blok, Kornelis, Cissé, Guéladio, Dentener, Frank, Eriksen, Siri, Fischer, Erich, Garner, Gregory, Guivarch, Céline, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, Hansen, Gerrit, Hauser, Mathias, Hawkins, Ed, Hermans, Tim, Kopp, Robert, Leprince-Ringuet, Noëmie, Lewis, Jared, Ley, Debora, Ludden, Chloé, Niamir, Leila, Nicholls, Zebedee, Some, Shreya, Szopa, Sophie, Trewin, Blair, van der Wijst, Kaj-Ivar, Winter, Gundula, Witting, Maximilian, Birt, Arlene, Ha, Meeyoung, Kim, Jinmi, Haites, Erik F., Jung, Yonghun, Stavins, Robert, Orendain, Dan Jezreel A., Ignon, Lance, Park, Semin, and Park, Youngin

Abstract

This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It integrates the main findings of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) based on contributions from the three Working Groups1 , and the three Special Reports. The summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in three parts: SPM.A Current Status and Trends, SPM.B Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses, and SPM.C Responses in the Near Term.This report recognizes the interdependence of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies; the value of diverse forms of knowledge; and the close linkages between climate change adaptation, mitigation, ecosystem health, human well-being and sustainable development, and reflects the increasing diversity of actors involved in climate action. Based on scientific understanding, key findings can be formulated as statements of fact or associated with an assessed level of confidence using the IPCC calibrated language.

Published
2023

13. Climate change 2022: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

Author

Pörtner, Hans O., Roberts, Debra C., Adams, Helen, Adler, Carolina, Aldunce, Paulina, Ali, Elham, Ara Begum, Rawshan, Betts, Richard, Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Biesbroek, Robbert, Birkmann, Joern, Bowen, Kathryn, Castellanos, Edwin, Cissé, Gueladio, Constable, Andrew, Cramer, Wolfgang, Dodman, David, Eriksen, Siri H., Fischlin, Andreas, Garschagen, Matthias, Glavovic, Bruce, Gilmore, Elisabeth, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, Harper, Sherilee, Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Hayward, Bronwyn, Hirabayashi, Yukiko, Howden, Mark, Kalaba, Kanungwe, Kiessling, Wolfgang, Lasco, Rodel, Lawrence, Judy, Lemos, Maria Fernanda, Lempert, Robert, Ley, Debora, Lissner, Tabea, Lluch-Cota, Salvador, Loeschke, Sina, Lucatello, Simone, Luo, Yong, Mackey, Brndan, Maharaj, Shobha, Mendez, Carlos, Mintenbeck, Katja, Moncassim Vale, Mariana, Morecroft, Mike D., Mukherji, Aditi, Mycoo, Michelle, Mustonen, Tero, Nalau, Johanna, Okem, Adrew, Ometto, Jean Pierre, Parmesan, Camille, Pelling, Mark, Pinho, Patricia, Poloczanska, Elvira, Racault, Marie-Fanny, Reckien, Diana, Pereira, Joy, Revi, Aromar, Rose, Steven, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Roberto, Schipper, E.L.F., Schmidt, Daniela, Schoeman, Davis, Shaw, Rajib, Singh, Chandni, Solecki, William, Stringer, Lindsay, Thomas, Adella, Totin, Edmond, Trisos, Christopher, Viner, David, van Aalst, Maarten, Wairiu, Morgan, Warren, Rachel, Yanda, Pius, Zaiton Ibrahim, Zelina, Pörtner, Hans O., Roberts, Debra C., Adams, Helen, Adler, Carolina, Aldunce, Paulina, Ali, Elham, Ara Begum, Rawshan, Betts, Richard, Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Biesbroek, Robbert, Birkmann, Joern, Bowen, Kathryn, Castellanos, Edwin, Cissé, Gueladio, Constable, Andrew, Cramer, Wolfgang, Dodman, David, Eriksen, Siri H., Fischlin, Andreas, Garschagen, Matthias, Glavovic, Bruce, Gilmore, Elisabeth, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, Harper, Sherilee, Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Hayward, Bronwyn, Hirabayashi, Yukiko, Howden, Mark, Kalaba, Kanungwe, Kiessling, Wolfgang, Lasco, Rodel, Lawrence, Judy, Lemos, Maria Fernanda, Lempert, Robert, Ley, Debora, Lissner, Tabea, Lluch-Cota, Salvador, Loeschke, Sina, Lucatello, Simone, Luo, Yong, Mackey, Brndan, Maharaj, Shobha, Mendez, Carlos, Mintenbeck, Katja, Moncassim Vale, Mariana, Morecroft, Mike D., Mukherji, Aditi, Mycoo, Michelle, Mustonen, Tero, Nalau, Johanna, Okem, Adrew, Ometto, Jean Pierre, Parmesan, Camille, Pelling, Mark, Pinho, Patricia, Poloczanska, Elvira, Racault, Marie-Fanny, Reckien, Diana, Pereira, Joy, Revi, Aromar, Rose, Steven, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Roberto, Schipper, E.L.F., Schmidt, Daniela, Schoeman, Davis, Shaw, Rajib, Singh, Chandni, Solecki, William, Stringer, Lindsay, Thomas, Adella, Totin, Edmond, Trisos, Christopher, Viner, David, van Aalst, Maarten, Wairiu, Morgan, Warren, Rachel, Yanda, Pius, and Zaiton Ibrahim, Zelina

Abstract

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

Published
2022

14. Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems

Author

Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Naess, Lars Otto, Allen-O’Neil, Bridget, Totin, Edmond, Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson, Risvoll, Camilla, Rivera-Ferre, Marta G., López-i-Gelats, Feliu, Eriksen, Siri, Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Naess, Lars Otto, Allen-O’Neil, Bridget, Totin, Edmond, Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson, Risvoll, Camilla, Rivera-Ferre, Marta G., López-i-Gelats, Feliu, and Eriksen, Siri

Abstract

Climate change scenarios have significant implications for the livelihoods and food security of particular groups in society and will necessitate a range of adaptation actions. While there is a significant literature on the social as well as biophysical factors and limits to adaptation, less is known about the interactions between these, and what such interactions mean for the prospects of achieving sustainable and resilient food systems. This paper is an attempt at addressing this gap by examining changing biophysical and social factors, with specific consideration of vulnerable groups, across four case studies (Ghana, Malawi, Norway and Spain). In each case, future climate change scenarios and associated biophysical limits are mapped onto four key social factors that drive vulnerability and mediate adaptation, namely, scale, history, power and politics, and social differentiation. We then consider what the interaction between biophysical limits and socio-political dynamics means for the options for and limits to future adaptation, and how climate may interact with, and reshape, socio-political elements. We find that biophysical limits and socio-political factors do not operate in isolation, but interact, with dynamic relationships determining the ‘space’ or set of options for sustainable adaptation. By connecting the perspectives of biophysical and social factors, the study illuminates the risks of unanticipated outcomes that result from the disregard of local contexts in the implementation of adaptation measures. We conclude that a framework focusing on the space for sustainable adaptation conditioned by biophysical and social factors, and their interactions, can help provide evidence on what does and does not constitute sustainable adaptation, and help to counter unhelpful narratives of climate change as a sole or dominant cause of challenges in food systems.

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2022

16. Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems

Author

Bezner Kerr, Rachel, primary, Naess, Lars Otto, additional, Allen‐O’Neil, Bridget, additional, Totin, Edmond, additional, Nyantakyi‐Frimpong, Hanson, additional, Risvoll, Camilla, additional, Rivera Ferre, Marta G., additional, López‐i‐Gelats, Feliu, additional, and Eriksen, Siri, additional

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2022
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17. Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo

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Nightingale, Andrea, Gonda, Noemi, and Eriksen, Siri H.

Subjects
Climate Research, Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507)
Abstract

Alarming rates of environmental change have catalyzed scholars to call for fundamental transformations in social-political and economic relations. Yet cautionary tales about how power and politics are constitutive of these efforts fill the literature. We show how a relational framing of adaptation and transformation demands a political, cross-scalar, and socionatural analysis to probe the affects and effects of climate change and better grasp how transformative change unfolds. We bring affect theory into conversation with the literature on adaptation politics, socio-environmental transformations, subjectivity, and our empirical work to frame our analysis around three under investigated aspects of transformation: (i) the uncertain and unpredictable relations that constitute socionatures; (ii) other ways of knowing; and (iii) the affective and emotional relations that form a basis for action. Affective adaptation represents a different ontological take on transformation by reframing the socionatural, normative and ethical aspects as relational, uncertain, and performative. This directs analytical attention to processes rather than outcomes. The emphasis on the encounter between bodies in affect theory points to the need for experiential and embodied ways of knowing climate to effect transformative change. Effective transformation requires recognizing uncertainty and unpredictability as part of transformative processes. This is not because all outcomes are acceptable, but rather because uncertainty and unpredictability are elements which help generate affects (action) and emotional commitment to shared human and more than human relations in action, projects, and policies. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values-Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

Published
2022

18. Putting 'vulnerable groups' at the centre of adaptation interventions by promoting transformative adaptation as a learning process

Author

Taylor, Marcus, Eriksen, Siri, Vincent, Katharine, Brooks, Nick, Scoville-Simonds, Morgan, and Schipper, Lisa

Subjects
Climate change adaptation, Coproduction of knowledge, Maladaptation, Transformation
Abstract

Report submitted to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) This report is a follow up and deepening of the working paper, “Climate change interventions and vulnerability reduction in developing countries: Challenges and leverage points for transformation”. In that backgrounder, we highlighted that many adaptation interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability (Eriksen et al. 2021a), which is also reflected in the concept of ‘maladaptation’ that was recently foregrounded in the recent IPCC AR6 WGII Report (IPCC 2022). Maladaptation frequently stems from overly technical adaptation programming that is top-down and driven by outside objectives and knowledge. Instead, there is increasing recognition of adaptation as a socio-political process that addresses the root causes of the vulnerability of communities or segments of the population and, in so doing, builds the capacities of impacted populations and communities to engage climate challenges. This approach is termed ‘transformative adaptation’ and requires engagement with governance and institutional questions about whose values and perspectives are embraced within adaptation planning, and considering justice in these processes. This background paper highlights the kinds of practice that can help avoid maladaptive outcomes and promote transformative adaptation. Through case study examples of projects that - at least partially - embody aspects of a reflexive approach, the paper identifies ‘checklists’ of positive features to encourage and ‘red flags’ to be questioned or avoided in project proposal evaluation. NORAD

Published
2022

19. Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.

Author

Marty, Edwige, Bullock, Renee, Cashmore, Matthew, Crane, Todd, and Eriksen, Siri

Subjects
CLIMATE change, INTERSECTIONALITY, COMMONS, DIFFERENTIATION (Sociology), RANGELANDS
Abstract

With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress, diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also promoted as a climate change adaptation strategy to reduce climatic exposure. Through a study of a Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, we analyze how pastoralists navigate changing access to key productive resources that are linked to diversification processes, social differentiation, and the reshaping of livelihood practices. By integrating an intersectional approach in access theory, we unpack a deeper level of context specific patterns of inclusion and exclusion embedded within evolving production relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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20. Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo.

Author

Nightingale, Andrea J., Gonda, Noémi, and Eriksen, Siri H.

Subjects
AFFECT (Psychology), INTERPERSONAL relations, LITERARY adaptations, PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation, FRAMES (Social sciences), POWER (Social sciences)
Abstract

Alarming rates of environmental change have catalyzed scholars to call for fundamental transformations in social‐political and economic relations. Yet cautionary tales about how power and politics are constitutive of these efforts fill the literature. We show how a relational framing of adaptation and transformation demands a political, cross‐scalar, and socionatural analysis to probe the affects and effects of climate change and better grasp how transformative change unfolds. We bring affect theory into conversation with the literature on adaptation politics, socio‐environmental transformations, subjectivity, and our empirical work to frame our analysis around three under investigated aspects of transformation: (i) the uncertain and unpredictable relations that constitute socionatures; (ii) other ways of knowing; and (iii) the affective and emotional relations that form a basis for action. Affective adaptation represents a different ontological take on transformation by reframing the socionatural, normative and ethical aspects as relational, uncertain, and performative. This directs analytical attention to processes rather than outcomes. The emphasis on the encounter between bodies in affect theory points to the need for experiential and embodied ways of knowing climate to effect transformative change. Effective transformation requires recognizing uncertainty and unpredictability as part of transformative processes. This is not because all outcomes are acceptable, but rather because uncertainty and unpredictability are elements which help generate affects (action) and emotional commitment to shared human and more than human relations in action, projects, and policies. This article is categorized under:Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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21. Exploring the contribution of paradiplomacy to climate resilient development : the cases of Oslo and Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Author

Giudicelli, David-Pierre and Eriksen, Siri Ellen Hallstrøm

Subjects
Subnational governments, Climate resilient development, Polycentric governance, Decentralized cooperations, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Oslo, Paradiplomacy
Abstract

The IPCC conclusions are clear: the situation is dire, and the window of opportunity to keep a hospitable climate is narrowing. Current systems of global governance are showing their limits in the face of such threats, as the important lag in appropriate climate action illustrates. Moreover, our better understanding of the synergies between climate and societies is pushing for transformations embedding climate resilience within a sustainable and just human development. As such actions are required at all levels, a new type of actor emerging on the international scene deserves attention: subnational governments. Cities and regions worldwide are indeed getting increasingly involved in global affairs, advocating through networks, acting through cooperation, signing treaties… A phenomenon coined as “paradiplomacy” by a growing but fragmented body of literature, that embodies a move towards more polycentric forms of global governance. This thesis explores how the global involvement of subnational governments can contribute to the integrated approach of climate resilient development. By looking at the paradiplomatic activities of two cases – the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Norwegian city of Oslo – this research investigates actual contributions to key dimensions of climate resilience and socially just development. Through a comparative approach, it attempts to identify the factors shaping such contributions, highlighting some of the limits and potentials of a decentralized global climate action, and its integration with issues of socially just human development. M-DS

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2022

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