Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2113022
Michael Olabisi, R. Richardson, A. Adelaja
ABSTRACT Energy consumption across the African continent is expected to increase sharply in the next two decades, largely due to population growth, urbanization, and rising incomes. Much of the energy consumption is in the form of wood biomass, kerosene, and diesel. Africa’s energy demand trajectory points to a future scenario where its contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions will threaten global sustainability. Furthermore, existing supply capacity is unlikely to meet the rising demand for energy. Africa’s transition to renewable energy is needed to balance future energy supply and demand with climate-related externalities. A key barrier to this solution is Africa’s energy finance gap, which calls for a concerted effort by investors in Africa’s energy markets and governments, as well as global development partners. We highlight the direct link between Africa’s energy finance gap and the long-run scenario for the global climate crisis.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2117978
C. Elrick-Barr, R. Plummer, T. F. Smith
ABSTRACT Human development seeks to enlarge freedoms by building capacity and is integral to achieving sustainable development, particularly in the era of the Anthropocene. However, the efficiency and effectiveness of capacity building is limited. First-generation adaptive capacity emphasizes a deficit model. Second-generation adaptive capacity focuses on mobilization by individuals. Neither adequately address the issue of scale, nor recognize how stocks of capacity are enhanced or diminished through interactions between individuals and groups. Addressing these shortcomings and realizing climate-resilient development, is contingent upon a next (third) generation of adaptive capacity that incorporates the transfer of capacity.
{"title":"Third-generation adaptive capacity assessment for climate-resilient development","authors":"C. Elrick-Barr, R. Plummer, T. F. Smith","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2022.2117978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2117978","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Human development seeks to enlarge freedoms by building capacity and is integral to achieving sustainable development, particularly in the era of the Anthropocene. However, the efficiency and effectiveness of capacity building is limited. First-generation adaptive capacity emphasizes a deficit model. Second-generation adaptive capacity focuses on mobilization by individuals. Neither adequately address the issue of scale, nor recognize how stocks of capacity are enhanced or diminished through interactions between individuals and groups. Addressing these shortcomings and realizing climate-resilient development, is contingent upon a next (third) generation of adaptive capacity that incorporates the transfer of capacity.","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"15 1","pages":"518 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49354968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2116927
Suraj Das, A. Mishra
ABSTRACT Climate change is the new normal of modern times, complicating the assurance of food security to the vulnerable peoples, especially the local communities with deep-rooted customary beliefs associated with the dietary habits of the Himalayan region. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the climate-induced impacts on traditional communities is not yet fully understood for evidence-based policy formation. Hence, this study aims (i) to analyze the perception of local people towards climate change, (ii) to investigate the perception of local communities toward traditional dietary habits, and (iii) to explore the changes observed in socio-cultural beliefs system due to dietary shift. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 75 in-depth qualitative interviews. The results of the grounded theory approach show that climate change has a localized meaning. Further, environmental change has significantly affected local food choices, which have an implication on the customary belief system attached to the local communities, irrespective of the socio-demography of the communities. The current study concludes that traditional knowledge is significant in addressing the issue of climate change. Therefore, the local society’s socio-ecological beliefs must be integrated for effective food security and climate change adaptation strategies.
{"title":"Climate change, dietary shift, and traditional norms in the western Himalayan region, India","authors":"Suraj Das, A. Mishra","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2022.2116927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2116927","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Climate change is the new normal of modern times, complicating the assurance of food security to the vulnerable peoples, especially the local communities with deep-rooted customary beliefs associated with the dietary habits of the Himalayan region. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the climate-induced impacts on traditional communities is not yet fully understood for evidence-based policy formation. Hence, this study aims (i) to analyze the perception of local people towards climate change, (ii) to investigate the perception of local communities toward traditional dietary habits, and (iii) to explore the changes observed in socio-cultural beliefs system due to dietary shift. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 75 in-depth qualitative interviews. The results of the grounded theory approach show that climate change has a localized meaning. Further, environmental change has significantly affected local food choices, which have an implication on the customary belief system attached to the local communities, irrespective of the socio-demography of the communities. The current study concludes that traditional knowledge is significant in addressing the issue of climate change. Therefore, the local society’s socio-ecological beliefs must be integrated for effective food security and climate change adaptation strategies.","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"15 1","pages":"509 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44389983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2092051
Dongliang Han, Tiantian Zhang, Yuxin Qin, Yu-fei Tan, Jing Liu
ABSTRACT With continuous acceleration of urbanization, the complexity of the urban geometry leads to great changes in the surface albedo, which further affects the microclimates of urban areas, and gives rise to the urban heat island effect (UHI). The UHI effect results in a series of environmental problems, including frequent occurrence of abnormal weather conditions, pollution of atmospheric environment, increases in building energy consumption and even underlying dangers to urban residents. This paper proposes a critical review on the mechanisms and effectiveness of the major UHI mitigation strategies, i.e. using cool materials, arranging vegetation schemes, incorporating water bodies and optimizing the urban geometry. The review indicates that the ambient air temperature could be reduced by 1.4K∼3.74K, depending on the strategies employed. The previously available mitigation measures are more effective in summer cooling in Tropical, Subtropical and Mediterranean climates. With the increase of H/W (height-to-width) and SVF (sky-view factor), the cooling effects of vegetation, water body and cool materials are better. The review results can provide theoretical guidance to the planning and designing of buildings, and cities, the enhancement of the liveability of urban environment, and the sustainable development of future cities.
{"title":"A comparative review on the mitigation strategies of urban heat island (UHI): a pathway for sustainable urban development","authors":"Dongliang Han, Tiantian Zhang, Yuxin Qin, Yu-fei Tan, Jing Liu","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2022.2092051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2092051","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With continuous acceleration of urbanization, the complexity of the urban geometry leads to great changes in the surface albedo, which further affects the microclimates of urban areas, and gives rise to the urban heat island effect (UHI). The UHI effect results in a series of environmental problems, including frequent occurrence of abnormal weather conditions, pollution of atmospheric environment, increases in building energy consumption and even underlying dangers to urban residents. This paper proposes a critical review on the mechanisms and effectiveness of the major UHI mitigation strategies, i.e. using cool materials, arranging vegetation schemes, incorporating water bodies and optimizing the urban geometry. The review indicates that the ambient air temperature could be reduced by 1.4K∼3.74K, depending on the strategies employed. The previously available mitigation measures are more effective in summer cooling in Tropical, Subtropical and Mediterranean climates. With the increase of H/W (height-to-width) and SVF (sky-view factor), the cooling effects of vegetation, water body and cool materials are better. The review results can provide theoretical guidance to the planning and designing of buildings, and cities, the enhancement of the liveability of urban environment, and the sustainable development of future cities.","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"15 1","pages":"379 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60411990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2100310
N. Haque, Sungida Rashid
ABSTRACT Due to inequalities of innovation capacity among nations, climate technologies’ minimizing greenhouse gas emissions require deliberate interventions for adoption and diffusion in developing countries. Aid projects of international development organizations have long served the function of system builders for climate technologies through demonstration projects or barrier removal activities. Emerging transition literature has come up with theories of how project-level niche experiments gradually affect landscape settings through bottom-up evolution. The activities of the aid projects on climate technologies match the posited roles of niche experiments nurturing with the co-evolution of technology, user practices and regulatory structures. This paper provides insight into how climate technologies, previously supported by aid projects, played a role in familiarizing these technologies in recipient countries. Familiarization in this paper is defined as the non-prioritization of climate technology in a country’s Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) document. It was found that increasing project duration lowers the chance of technology’s inclusion in TNA, while higher project cost increased the odds of inclusion. Given the time-consuming nature of capacity building over multiple fronts, the effectiveness of future projects depends on donors’ ability to commit aid over multiyear periods to sustain scale-up.
{"title":"Effectiveness of aid projects in climate technology familiarization in recipient countries","authors":"N. Haque, Sungida Rashid","doi":"10.1080/17565529.2022.2100310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2100310","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Due to inequalities of innovation capacity among nations, climate technologies’ minimizing greenhouse gas emissions require deliberate interventions for adoption and diffusion in developing countries. Aid projects of international development organizations have long served the function of system builders for climate technologies through demonstration projects or barrier removal activities. Emerging transition literature has come up with theories of how project-level niche experiments gradually affect landscape settings through bottom-up evolution. The activities of the aid projects on climate technologies match the posited roles of niche experiments nurturing with the co-evolution of technology, user practices and regulatory structures. This paper provides insight into how climate technologies, previously supported by aid projects, played a role in familiarizing these technologies in recipient countries. Familiarization in this paper is defined as the non-prioritization of climate technology in a country’s Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) document. It was found that increasing project duration lowers the chance of technology’s inclusion in TNA, while higher project cost increased the odds of inclusion. Given the time-consuming nature of capacity building over multiple fronts, the effectiveness of future projects depends on donors’ ability to commit aid over multiyear periods to sustain scale-up.","PeriodicalId":47734,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Development","volume":"15 1","pages":"467 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42911351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2095331
C. Debrah, A. Darko, Albert P. C. Chan
ABSTRACT Green finance (GF) supports the global fight against climate change and its impacts. It is critical to attaining the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Since GF is regarded as the future of finance and investment, it needs to be fully understood. This paper presents the first mixed-methods systematic review with both bibliometric and qualitative analysis of the state-of-the-art and trends in GF research. A bibliometric review was performed to quantitatively examine 995 related publications retrieved from Scopus and validated with the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect. Results showed that GF is still relatively an immature but interdisciplinary research area. A further qualitative-systematic analysis of 60 selected publications was conducted to identify the key findings, challenges, and recommendations for future research. Findings revealed six major research hotspots in GF: (i) green bond market and greenium, (ii) green credit (loan), (iii) carbon investment and market, (iv) green banking, (v) market stress (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic) and GF, and (vi) domestic and international climate finance policies. This study provides insights into key applications of GF as it applies to specific research fields, a and as the pathways to realize the accruable benefits of GF to enhance research and development.
摘要：绿色金融支持全球应对气候变化及其影响。它对实现《巴黎协定》和联合国可持续发展目标至关重要。既然广发基金被视为金融和投资的未来，就需要充分理解它。本文首次采用文献计量学和定性分析相结合的混合方法对GF研究的现状和趋势进行了系统综述。对Scopus检索到的995篇相关出版物进行了文献计量学审查，并通过Web of Science、Google Scholar和ScienceDirect进行了验证。结果表明，GF仍然是一个相对不成熟但跨学科的研究领域。对60份选定的出版物进行了进一步的定性系统分析，以确定关键发现、挑战和对未来研究的建议。研究结果揭示了GF的六个主要研究热点：（i）绿色债券市场和greenium，（ii）绿色信贷（贷款），（iii）碳投资和市场，（iv）绿色银行，（v）市场压力（如新冠肺炎大流行）和GF，以及（vi）国内和国际气候金融政策。这项研究深入了解了GF在特定研究领域的关键应用，以及实现GF应计利益以加强研发的途径。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-10DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2083546
B. E. Ofori-Kyereh, J. Morton, T. Chancellor
ABSTRACT This paper explores the constraints on the adaptive capacity of crop farmers in two districts in different agroecological zones – Atwima Mponua (Semi-Deciduous Forest Zone) and Ejura-Sekyeredumase (Transition Zone) of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. A comparative-case mixed-methods research design was adopted using household survey questionnaires, focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews with key informants. The study involved 150 farming households from each district. The study found that farmers’ adaptive capacity to either plan or implement adaptive strategies has not always been successful due to lack of resources among other things. Constraints mentioned by farmers include lack of infrastructure, and secured land rights while the local institutions mentioned inadequate financial resources and poor technological capacity. Robust policy formulation and implementation aimed at equipping farmers with resources and strengthening institutional capacities is necessary to enhance the adaptive capacity of crop farmers to climate variability and change impacts.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2092052
S. Krishnan
ABSTRACT Recurring floods and erosion result in displacement, which adversely impacts women who are ‘left behind’ when men migrate. Policy and programme measures for disaster response and climate adaptation often perceive women as homogenous, vulnerable groups, instead of addressing underlying structural and conceptual barriers and strengthening their adaptive capacities to disasters and displacement. This article draws upon a political ecology lens to understand gendered recovery processes following disasters across four districts in Assam, northeastern India using empirical research from 2012 to 2018. The findings add nuances to the displacements of women in Assam as being ‘climate-induced’ by showing the different mechanisms of displacement and how it impacts particular groups of women, as well as their differential ways of coping with these changes. This article draws on sustained long-term qualitative research among rural villagers, particularly women, in Assam where migration is connected to riverbank erosion, exacerbated by the construction of a new embankment, and disrupted due to waterlogging caused by embankments and government relocation schemes in order to construct further dams/embankments.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2097162
Yanjun Cai
ABSTRACT This research manifests the voices of women in Myanmar tackling climate hazards. Facing an unpredictable climatic future, the disadvantaged populations, such as women from the informal settlements, are considered to be exposed to higher risks, whereas their resilience-building efforts are usually overlooked in academia and policymaking. This work highlights the gendered climate resilience in Dala Township, a peri-urban community of Yangon, through participant observations and semi-structured interviews. This research reveals the gendered vulnerability, virtue, and everyday resistance towards resilience, emphasizing the local lens of affected disadvantaged women who are often not heard. Notably, it demonstrates alternative realities, knowledge-making, and practices of climate resilience, giving voices to the voiceless. Situated in Myanmar, findings call for a more gender-sensitive approach to build a just and resilient climatic future for all, with tremendous potential for broader application in the disadvantaged communities worldwide tackling intersectional injustice.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2089089
C. Wamsler, J. Mulligan, Vera Bukachi, Charity Mumbi
ABSTRACT The increasing number and complexity of urban risk and disasters have a significant bearing on the emotional and mental wellbeing of those who are exposed and hamper their responses. Nevertheless, current discourses and approaches to increase resilience tend to focus on broader socio-economic, physical and environmental systems. This reflects a failure by the academic and practitioner communities to consider the potential contribution of human interior dimensions in adaptation planning. Concomitantly, a growing body of knowledge highlights the need to bridge the gap between internal and external (systems) approaches for achieving sustainable transformations. Against this background, this article aims to increase knowledge on the operationalization of such more integrative approaches in marginal settings. Based on a case study of a flood adaptation project in Kibera, Kenya, we assess the need and potential ways to address interior dimensions in the context of project planning, design and implementation. We show how the integration of such dimensions occurs in existing adaptation projects and why this matters. On this basis, we provide methodological and operational recommendations regarding ways to support more integrative approaches that bridge subjective, intersubjective, objective and interobjective perspectives to support transformation.
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