Climate policy processes, local institutions, and adaptation actions: mechanisms of translation and influence

This paper reviews and synthesizes the published literature on decentralization of renewable resources and development interventions to identify four key lessons for future adaptation planning at the national level. After presenting an analysis of why studies of decentralization reforms are relevant...

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Main Authors: Agarwal, Arun, Perrin, Nicolas, Chhatre, Ashwini, Benson, Catherine S., Kononen, Minna
Other Authors: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Sustainable Development Department, World Bank, Washington DC, USA, Global Environment Facility, Washington DC, USA, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, IL, USA, Europe and Central Asis Department, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
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Climate policy processes, local institutions, and adaptation actions: mechanisms of translation and influence
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description This paper reviews and synthesizes the published literature on decentralization of renewable resources and development interventions to identify four key lessons for future adaptation planning at the national level. After presenting an analysis of why studies of decentralization reforms are relevant to adaptation planning, the paper examines priority adaptation projects identified by 47 Least Developed Countries in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). Our research analyzes the range of institutional instruments and relationships visible in contemporary decentralization reforms. The four major lessons for adaptation planning concern the need for national adaptation planners to: (1) attend systematically to local institutions relevant to adaptation and increase local capacity through transfers of information, financial, and technical resources; (2) empower communities and local governments by increasing local autonomy so as to decentralize adaptation planning and implementation; (3) create mechanisms for information sharing among decision makers across sectors and levels of decision making; and (4) improve accountability of local decision makers to their constituents. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:565–579. doi:10.1002/wcc.193 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website . Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94240/1/193_ftp.pdf
author2 School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Sustainable Development Department, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
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Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, IL, USA
Europe and Central Asis Department, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
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Perrin, Nicolas
Chhatre, Ashwini
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title_full Climate policy processes, local institutions, and adaptation actions: mechanisms of translation and influence
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Tan‐Mullins M. The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: the political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand. Singap J Trop Geogr 2007, 28: 348 – 361.
Araral E. Bureaucratic incentives, path dependence, and foreign aid: an empirical institutional analysis of irrigation in the Philippines. Policy Sci 2005, 38: 131 – 157.
Maikhuri RK, Nautiyal S, Rao KS, Chandrasekhar K, Gavali R, Saxena KG. Analysis and resolution of protected area ‐ people conflicts in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, India. Environ Conserv 2000, 27: 43 – 53.
Blair H. Participation and accountability at the periphery: democratic local governance in six countries. World Dev 2000, 28: 21 – 39.
Hoffmann I. Access to land and water in the Zamfara Reserve. A case study for the management of common property resources in pastoral areas of West Africa. Hum Ecol 2004, 32: 77 – 105.
Meinzen‐Dick R, Raju KV, Gulati A. What affects organization and collective action for managing resources? Evidence from canal irrigation systems in India. World Dev 2002, 30: 649 – 666.
Thebaud B, Batterbury S. Sahel pastoralists: opportunism, struggle, conflict and negotiation. a case study from eastern Niger. Glob Environ Change‐Hum Policy Dimens 2001, 11: 69 – 78.
Singh VK, Suresh A, Gupta DC, Jakhmola RC. Common property resources rural livelihood and small ruminants in India: a review. Indian J Anim Sci 2005, 75: 1027 – 1036.
Scott JC. Seeing Like a State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1999.
Swatuk LA. Political challenges to implementing IWRM in Southern Africa. Phys Chem Earth 2005, 30: 872 – 880.
Satria A, Matsuda Y. Decentralization of fisheries management in Indonesia. Mar Policy 2004, 28: 437 – 450.
Siry HY. Decentralized coastal zone management in Malaysia and Indonesia: a comparative perspective. Coast Manage 2006, 34: 267 – 285.
Thorburn CC. The house that poison built: Customary marine property rights and the live food fish trade in the Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku. Dev Change 2001, 32: 151 – 180.
White A, Deguit E, Jatulan W, Eisma‐Osorio L. Integrated coastal management in Philippine local governance: evolution and benefits. Coast Manage 2006, 34: 287 – 302.
Sarch MT. Fishing and farming at Lake Chad: institutions for access to natural resources. J Environ Manage 2001, 62: 185 – 199.
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3(6): 565-579. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94240> 1757-7780 1757-7799 https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94240 doi:10.1002/wcc.193 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change Samakande I, Senzanje A, Manzungu E. Sustainable water management in smallholder irrigation schemes: understanding the impact of field water management on maize productivity on two irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe. Phy Chem Earth 2004, 29: 1075 – 1081. Saunders F, Mohammed SM, Jiddawi N, Sjoling S. An examination of governance arrangements at Kisakasaka mangrove reserve in Zanzibar. Environ Manage 2008, 41: 663 – 675. Tan‐Mullins M. The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: the political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand. Singap J Trop Geogr 2007, 28: 348 – 361. Araral E. Bureaucratic incentives, path dependence, and foreign aid: an empirical institutional analysis of irrigation in the Philippines. Policy Sci 2005, 38: 131 – 157. Maikhuri RK, Nautiyal S, Rao KS, Chandrasekhar K, Gavali R, Saxena KG. Analysis and resolution of protected area ‐ people conflicts in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, India. Environ Conserv 2000, 27: 43 – 53. Blair H. Participation and accountability at the periphery: democratic local governance in six countries. World Dev 2000, 28: 21 – 39. Hoffmann I. Access to land and water in the Zamfara Reserve. A case study for the management of common property resources in pastoral areas of West Africa. Hum Ecol 2004, 32: 77 – 105. Meinzen‐Dick R, Raju KV, Gulati A. What affects organization and collective action for managing resources? Evidence from canal irrigation systems in India. World Dev 2002, 30: 649 – 666. Thebaud B, Batterbury S. Sahel pastoralists: opportunism, struggle, conflict and negotiation. a case study from eastern Niger. Glob Environ Change‐Hum Policy Dimens 2001, 11: 69 – 78. Singh VK, Suresh A, Gupta DC, Jakhmola RC. Common property resources rural livelihood and small ruminants in India: a review. Indian J Anim Sci 2005, 75: 1027 – 1036. Scott JC. Seeing Like a State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1999. Swatuk LA. Political challenges to implementing IWRM in Southern Africa. Phys Chem Earth 2005, 30: 872 – 880. Satria A, Matsuda Y. Decentralization of fisheries management in Indonesia. Mar Policy 2004, 28: 437 – 450. Siry HY. Decentralized coastal zone management in Malaysia and Indonesia: a comparative perspective. Coast Manage 2006, 34: 267 – 285. Thorburn CC. The house that poison built: Customary marine property rights and the live food fish trade in the Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku. Dev Change 2001, 32: 151 – 180. White A, Deguit E, Jatulan W, Eisma‐Osorio L. Integrated coastal management in Philippine local governance: evolution and benefits. Coast Manage 2006, 34: 287 – 302. Sarch MT. Fishing and farming at Lake Chad: institutions for access to natural resources. J Environ Manage 2001, 62: 185 – 199. Mosse D. Collective action, common property, and social capital in South India: an anthropological commentary. Econ Dev Cult Change 2006, 54: 695 – 724. Rap E. Cultural performance, resource flows and passion in politics: A Situational analysis of an election rally in western Mexico. J Lat Am Stud 2007, 39: 595 – 625. Fujiie M, Hayami Y, Kikuchi M. The conditions of collective action for local commons management: the case of irrigation in the Philippines. Agric Econ 2005, 33: 179 – 189. Agrawal A. Climate adaptation, Local Institutions, and Sustainable Livelihoods, SDV, Washington DC: The World Bank; 2008. Farrington J, Bebbington A. Reluctant Partners: Non‐Governmental Organizations, the State, and Sustainable Agricultural Development. New York: Routledge; 1993. Gibson CC, Ostrom E, Ahn TK. The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey. Ecol Econ 2000, 32: 217 – 239. National Research Council (NRC). Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties, Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate Change, Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2005, 208. Solomon S, Plattner G, Knutti R, Friedlingstein P. Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, 2009. Available at: www.pnas.orgcgi.doi10.1073pnas.0812721106. (Accessed September 29, 2012). O'Neill BC, Oppenheimer M. Dangerous climate impacts and the Kyoto Protocol. Science 2002, 296: 1971 – 1972. Adger WN, Agrawala S, Mirza MMQ, Conde C, O'Brien K, Pulhin J, Pulwarty R, Smit B, Takahashi K. Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. In: Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, van der Linden PJ, Hanson CE, eds. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2007, 717 – 743. Conway D, Schipper ELF. Adaptation to climate change in Africa: challenges and opportunities identified in Africa. Glob Environ Change 2011, 21: 227 – 237. Libecap GD, Strickel RH, eds. The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2011. Adger WN. Social vulnerability to climate change and extremes in coastal Vietnam. World Dev 1999, 27: 249 – 269. Batterbury S, Forsyth T. Fighting back: human adaptations in marginal environments. Environment 1999, 41: 7 – 30. Berkes F, Jolly D. Adapting to climate change: Social‐Ecological resilience in a Canadian western Arctic community. Conserv Ecol 2001, 5: 18. Available at: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art18. (Accessed July 15, 2012). Reid P, Vogel C. Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu‐Natal. Glob Environ Change 2006, 16: 195 – 206. Eakin H, Lemos M. Institutions and change: the challenge of building adaptive capacity in Latin America. Glob Environ Change 2010, 20: 1 – 3. Larsen RK, Swartling ÅG, Powell N, May B, Plummer R, Simonsson L, Osbeck M. A framework for facilitating dialogue between policy planners and local climate change adaptation professionals: cases from Sweden, Canada and Indonesia. Environ Sci Policy 2012, 23: 12 – 23. Sietz D, Boschutz M, Klein RJT. Mainstreaming climate adaptation into development assistance: Rationale, institutional barriers, and opportunities in Mozambique. Environ Sci Policy 2011, 14: 493 – 502. Stringer LC, Dyer JC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C, Mkwambisi D. Adaptations to climate change, drought, and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environ Sci Policy 2009, 12: 748 – 765. Ostrom E. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2007, 104: 15181 – 15187. Boyd E, Lemos M. The politics of adaptation across scales: the implications of additionality to policy choice and development. In: Boykoff MT, ed. The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey. London: Routledge; 2010, 96 – 110. Young O. The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, Scale. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2002. Ostrom E. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1990. Uphoff N, Buck L. Strengthening rural local institutional capacities for sustainable livelihoods and equitable development, Social Development Department of the World Bank. Mimeo. 2006. UNFCCC. Report on the Least Developed Countries Expert Group Stocktaking Meeting on the Progress Made by Parties in the Preparation and Implementation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action, FCCC/SBI/2007/32. Bonn: UNFCCC; 2007. UNFCCC. The Marrakesh Accords & The Marrakesh Declaration, Advance Text. 2001. Available at: http://www.unfcccc.int/cop7/documents/accords_draft.pdf. (Accessed July 22, 2012). IndexNoFollow Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Natural Resources and Environment Science Article 2012 ftumdeepblue https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.193 2023-07-31T20:59:51Z This paper reviews and synthesizes the published literature on decentralization of renewable resources and development interventions to identify four key lessons for future adaptation planning at the national level. After presenting an analysis of why studies of decentralization reforms are relevant to adaptation planning, the paper examines priority adaptation projects identified by 47 Least Developed Countries in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). Our research analyzes the range of institutional instruments and relationships visible in contemporary decentralization reforms. The four major lessons for adaptation planning concern the need for national adaptation planners to: (1) attend systematically to local institutions relevant to adaptation and increase local capacity through transfers of information, financial, and technical resources; (2) empower communities and local governments by increasing local autonomy so as to decentralize adaptation planning and implementation; (3) create mechanisms for information sharing among decision makers across sectors and levels of decision making; and (4) improve accountability of local decision makers to their constituents. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:565–579. doi:10.1002/wcc.193 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website . Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94240/1/193_ftp.pdf Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Michigan: Deep Blue WIREs Climate Change 3 6 565 579

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