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- Boyd, Emily, et al.
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Chapter 5: Loss and Damage
- 2023
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Ingår i: Underfinanced. Underprepared : Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed - Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed. - 9789280740929 ; :2023, s. 61-74
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Key messages▶ In the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), loss and damage has emerged as a third key pillar of climate policy, alongside mitigation and adaptation, to address ever-increasing climate impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effect of climate change. ▶ Losses and damages arise when efforts to avoid or minimize climate impacts through mitigation and adaptation fail. Given the slow progress of mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and of adapting to climate risks, some losses and damages are occurring, and further loss and damage is unavoidable. ▶ There is a broad typology of responses available for both economic and non-economic losses and damages that must all respect country ownership and be equitable, inclusive, accessible and adequate, but the lack of conceptual clarity is a clear barrier to making progress on loss and damage. ▶ Many uncertainties remain regarding the financial needs to address loss and damage, but innovative funding sources and governance structures must be found to reach the necessary scale.
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- Savelli, Elisa
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Parched Injustice : Unravelling the production and distribution of drought risk in South Africa
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Droughts and water shortages constitute some of the most urgent challenges that society must address. Due to anthropogenic pressure and human-induced climate change, future projections expect droughts to escalate and most heavily affect those who are socially, economically and politically disadvantaged. However, the world seems still unprepared to face future droughts, much less to address their implications. As of today, it is still difficult to foresee when droughts are likely to strike, for how long, and in particular, what their impacts will be. One of the reasons for this impasse is that scientists have not yet fully grasped the socioenvironmental complexity of droughts. To account for such complexity, this thesis combines sociohydrological and critical social sciences. This interdisciplinary effort contributes to better understand why droughts occur and manifest themselves the way they do. Specifically, the thesis aims to apprehend the production and distribution of drought risk over time and across space by (a) unravelling the socioenvironmental processes that over time reshape drought hazard along with (b) revealing the way certain socioenvironmental processes redistribute drought vulnerabilities across space. This thesis shows how different temporal and spatial scales expose distinctive socioenvironmental processes which are entangled with the production of drought hazard and vulnerabilities. The city of Cape Town and Ladismith’s agricultural area in South Africa provide the empirical basis for such analyses as they both witnessed extreme droughts which unfolded as water crises experienced unevenly by their respective populations. The thesis finds that rather than society as whole, power dynamics and social inequalities are much more adept at explaining the way humans unsustainably and unevenly reshape water systems, thereby transforming droughts into water crises. All too often, water consumption by privileged social groups exerts unsustainable pressure on the local hydrology, thereby constituting a serious threat for the long-term sustainability of urban or rural water systems. Power imbalances are amongst the driving mechanisms that determine what human-water dynamics will be sustained over time. As a result, to better understand the production and distribution of drought risk it is necessary to focus on the political economic processes that produce such injustices. Whilst doing so, drought scholars should always account for the agency of non-human processes and their entanglements with power dynamics. Ultimately, if as humans we cannot tame the agency of biophysical processes, we have, at minimum, the responsibility to address the political-economic systems and power dynamics that produce unjust and unsustainable socioenvironmental transformations.
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- Thorén, Henrik, et al.
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Critical social science and resilience
- 2021
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Social and Ecological Resilience.
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- West, Simon, 1985-
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Negotiating social-ecological fit through knowledge practice
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Adaptive governance and management (AG and AM) have been proposed to address the “problem of fit” between ecosystems and governance systems. AG and AM are intended to reconfigure the relations between knowledge and action through, for instance, experimentation, collaboration and monitoring, to enhance social-ecological feedbacks. However, apparent gaps have emerged between the theory of AG and AM, and the ability to enact them in practice. These gaps have developed, at least in part, because descriptions of and prescriptions for the ‘doing’ of AG and AM have rarely been situated in the context of negotiations over the production, mobilization and circulation of knowledge. This thesis addresses this lacuna by exploring how three knowledge practices – legal adjudication, scientific monitoring, and scientific narratives – negotiate social-ecological fit in a range of governance contexts and scales. Paper I examines the proposed ‘misfit’ between AG and the law in the context of environmental cases in the European Court of Human Rights. We find that adjudication in the Court frames deliberation of environmental change and human dignity in terms of the interplay between individual rights, public interests and state responsibilities. This practice enhances AG by facilitating the interaction of different ways of knowing the environment, supporting AM in member states in the context of public participation, and enhancing polycentricity at the European scale. Paper II addresses the apparent ‘gap’ between the theory and practice of AM by exploring the enactment of an ecological monitoring programme in an Australian land management organization. We find that knowledge in the programme is produced from emergent translations made between scientific logics prioritising experimentation and learning, public logics emphasizing accountability and legitimacy, and corporate logics demanding efficiency, effectiveness and organizational performance. Paper III explores ‘sensemaking’ – proposed as a way to enhance social-ecological fit by mobilizing actors, uniting networks and communities of practice, and inspiring environmental action on particular issues – in relation to the concept of ‘invasive alien species’ (‘IAS’) in South Africa. We analyse ‘IAS’ as a narrative, tracking it through governance realms of science, law, policy and media, and suggest how and why the ‘IAS’ narrative has been so predominant. We use the ‘IAS’ example to illustrate the complexities of meaning in sensemaking narratives, and highlight the ways in which certain narratives – despite best intentions – can also preponderate unproductive, potentially maladaptive ways of understanding and engaging with complex social-ecological change. In summary, this thesis recasts the pursuit of social-ecological fit as a complex onto-epistemic process, where knowledge about ecosystems and governance systems is produced, contested and transformed through material and conceptual practices. The thesis brings together AG and AM scholarship with deliberative, reflexive and decentered governance literatures, which helps to untangle the relationships between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ and paves the way for performative accounts of AG and AM ‘in action.’
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