Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?

This paper uses primary source data from several World Bank-led case studies on the “social dimensions of climate change” from 2008-2012 to understand how communities in developing countries can more successfully adapt to climate change. Poor communities face an adaptation deficit, specifically loca...

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Main Authors:	Ashwill, Maximillian, Heltberg, Rasmus
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	environmental change social dimensions erosive coping collective action
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16329

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spelling	okr-10986-163292021-04-23T14:03:28Z Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit? Ashwill, Maximillian Heltberg, Rasmus environmental change social dimensions erosive coping collective action This paper uses primary source data from several World Bank-led case studies on the “social dimensions of climate change” from 2008-2012 to understand how communities in developing countries can more successfully adapt to climate change. Poor communities face an adaptation deficit, specifically local communities, which engage more in coping measures than in adaptation measures, because the costs of adaptation remain too high while the effectiveness of adaptation in building resilience to severe weather events often remains limited or not sufficient in addressing long-term environmental trends. Further, adaptation can lead to negative outcomes, or maladaptation, which can occur when (1) planning does not sufficiently account for temporal and spatial factors, (2) policies contradict one another and create perverse incentives, (3) governance systems fail, and (4) communities lack the knowledge to adapt. Community leadership, organization, and trust towards nonlocal adaptation planners can build the social capital needed for collective action and successful adaptation. 2013-12-02T19:03:19Z 2013-12-02T19:03:19Z 2013-11-12 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16329 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	environmental change social dimensions erosive coping collective action Ashwill, Maximillian Heltberg, Rasmus Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
description	This paper uses primary source data from several World Bank-led case studies on the “social dimensions of climate change” from 2008-2012 to understand how communities in developing countries can more successfully adapt to climate change. Poor communities face an adaptation deficit, specifically local communities, which engage more in coping measures than in adaptation measures, because the costs of adaptation remain too high while the effectiveness of adaptation in building resilience to severe weather events often remains limited or not sufficient in addressing long-term environmental trends. Further, adaptation can lead to negative outcomes, or maladaptation, which can occur when (1) planning does not sufficiently account for temporal and spatial factors, (2) policies contradict one another and create perverse incentives, (3) governance systems fail, and (4) communities lack the knowledge to adapt. Community leadership, organization, and trust towards nonlocal adaptation planners can build the social capital needed for collective action and successful adaptation.
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author	Ashwill, Maximillian Heltberg, Rasmus
author_facet	Ashwill, Maximillian Heltberg, Rasmus
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title	Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
title_short	Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
title_full	Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
title_fullStr	Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
title_full_unstemmed	Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?
title_sort	is there a community-level adaptation deficit?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Is There a Community-Level Adaptation Deficit?

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