Community Based Adaptation
Tiempo bulletin: special issue on community-based adaptation
Community-based climate adaptation
Authors:
S. Huq (ed)
Publisher:
Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2008
Climate change impacts disproportionately affect the poor. Impacts will intensify yet poor communities already struggle to cope with current climate shocks. Adaptation is therefore fundamental, yet daunting. This edition of the Tiempo newsletter addresses the issue of community-based adaptation strategies. Four articles included are:
- Adaptation in the Arctic - how Arctic communities are vulnerable to climate change, in particular to changes in ice conditions, sea level, storms and the wildlife on which they depend
- Increasing resilience in Nepal - adaptation is context specific but not unique, defined as careful
development that considers future climatic conditions - Community action in Nepal - calling for more proactive mainstreaming of climate change considerations into policy making and greater incorporation of local knowledge into adaptation
strategising - Tea farming in South Africa - climate change is likely to make rooibos growing areas warmer, dryer and less hospitable for cultivation, with subsequent impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale rooibos tea farmers.
