DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2017.03.003
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85015296627
论文题名: The role of institutions in managing local level climate change adaptation in semi-arid Zimbabwe
作者: Mubaya C.P. ; Mafongoya P.
刊名: Climate Risk Management
ISSN: 22120963
出版年: 2017
卷: 16 起始页码: 93
结束页码: 105
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate change adaptation
; Institutional arrangements
; Institutions
英文摘要: Significant efforts have been made to understand impacts and how communities adapt to climate change impacts, yet there is an urgent need to interrogate the capacity of institutions and institutional arrangements in local level adaptation processes. Literature highlights that the success of these adaptation efforts generally hinges upon the nature of existing formal and informal rural institutions. This paper uses largely a qualitative approach to understand institutional structural issues and the role of institutions and institutional arrangements in facilitating local level adaptation. From our research we note three salient findings and their implications for incorporating institutions in local level adaptation. First, the public and private institutions in the study areas play a key role in facilitating adaptation, which appears to be in contrast to previous research in which societal configurations indicate greater state retreat over the past two to three decades. Second, while there appears to be a straightforward distinction between public, private and civic institutions in terms of their functions, we suggest caution given the fuzziness and fluidity of institutional categorization on the ground. Third, it appears that institutions and institutional arrangements of an informal nature foster collective action, that they have remained important over the past decades and remain a critical entry point into dealing with exclusionary tendencies against the vulnerable in communities. Within a broader discussion of the role of institutional frameworks in facilitating adaptation our case contributes to the broader issues of the inevitability of ultimately dealing with development challenges in the process of fostering local level adaptation. © 2017 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/58972
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作者单位: Directorate of Research and Resource Mobilization, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Private Bag 7724, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Recommended Citation:
Mubaya C.P.,Mafongoya P.. The role of institutions in managing local level climate change adaptation in semi-arid Zimbabwe[J]. Climate Risk Management,2017-01-01,16