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What facilitates adaptation? An analysis of community-based adaptation to environmental change in the Andes
- Source :
- International Journal of the Commons, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 119-141 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services), 2016.
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Abstract
- This study analyses the environmental, socio-economic and institutional factors that influence community-based adaptation strategies in 16 municipalities in the rural Andes of Colombia. The study focuses specifically on the factors that influence whether communities decide to take measures to manage their water and micro-watersheds in response to water scarcity caused by climate variability and land-use changes. The research uses quantitative and qualitative methods incorporating data from surveys to 104 water user associations, precipitation and land-use data, municipal socio-economic information, and semistructured interviews with key informants. The results reveal 1) the links between environmental change and the type of adaptation that communities implement, and 2) how, in face of water scarcity changes, external funding facilitates adaptation. The findings of this study contributes to the common-pool resource and adaptation literatures by highlighting the important role that external actors may have in shaping collective action to adapt to environmental change.
- Subjects :
- adaptive capacity
autonomous adaptation
climate-change
common pool resources
commons
conservation
deforestation
disturbance
governance
resilience
resource management
socio-ecological systems
sustainable development
vulnerability
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18750281
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- International Journal of the Commons
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b4150fe8be2e4c34866ce977aed38dd6
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.585