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Pluralizing climate change adaptation: mapping discourses in Vietnam

The experiences and perspectives of all those affected by climate change must inform adaptation for reasons of effectiveness, legitimacy, and justice. Recognizing how different stakeholders charact...

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“We are still here” climate change, gender and immobility in highly mobile Himalayan communities

In this paper we ask: why do people in rural agrarian communities facing increasing migration pressures from changing climatic conditions, stay? We aim to understand why people stay, who stays, wha...

Normative future visioning for city resilience and development

This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning. Multi-stakeholder and normative approaches to future visioning offer generative moments when creativ...

Much ado about nothing? Why adaptation measurement matters

Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation and tracking collective progress has received increasing attention across the domains of policy, finance and research. This is linked to the need to monito...

Influence of climate change, overfishing and COVID19 on irregular migration in West Africa

Throughout 2020, according to the Spanish Ministry of Home Office, 23,023 irregular migrants reached the coasts of the Canary Islands in Spain, 757% more than the previous year. The migrants left f...

Collective action by community groups: solutions for climate change or different players in the...

Community groups are taking initiatives to adapt to a changing climate. These organizations differ from businesses and governments by being non-profit, often informal, resource limited, and reliant...