Assessing climate change readiness in Seychelles: implications for ecosystem-based adaptation mainstreaming and marine spatial planning

Khan, Ahmed S.; Amélie, Vincent

doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0662-4

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“…AR5 concluded that more work is needed on climate change and socio‐economic scenario modeling at the scale of small islands, the nature of adaptation barriers and limits, the links between adaptation and sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, and maladaptation, and comparative analyses of islands‐related research. This study finds that Khan and Amelie (2015), Kuruppu and Willie (2015), Mycoo (2017), Rhiney et al (2018), and Robinson (2017b) were among those publications that explicitly addressed these gaps, suggesting that the Small Islands Chapter played a role in shaping the research agenda on climate change adaptation in SIDS.…”

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Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Robinson

2020

WIREs Climate Change

110

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The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2014 was the most comprehensive to date. Yet it left several gaps with regards to the impacts, implications and responses to climate change in small island developing states (SIDS). SIDS are recognized as a special grouping of developing countries. Located in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Caribbean, and Pacific regions, they comprise 58 countries that are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. With adaptation to climate change viewed as a viable and necessary complement to mitigation, academic interest in adaptation in these complex geographies is increasing. Despite this, not enough is known about the body of knowledge relating to adaptation in SIDS. This article systematically reviews 208 articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and notes, and synthesizes the nature and extent of the research evidence before and after AR5 (i.e., from 1990 to 2014, and from 2015 to 2018). It specifically explores shifts in (a) when, where and by what means knowledge is being produced (e.g., subject areas, methodologies), and the ways in which adaptation is being framed (i.e., conceptually, operationally), (b) the narratives, consensuses, and tensions across the key emerging themes in the literature, and (c) the knowledge gaps that exist. It also outlines a future research agenda, which is an important consideration not only for multi‐scale actors working to help solve the global climate challenge, but also for the scholars preparing the Small Islands Chapter of the Sixth Assessment Report due in 2021. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Sustainability and Human Well‐Being Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Robinson

2020

WIREs Climate Change

110

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“…Once the PCA axes were determined, potential progressive readiness indicators were then formulated with guidance from existing literature [4,[21][22][23][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Countries were then scored against these axes (dimensions) using the same binary technique as in Phase 1 in an attempt to capture their readiness progress across the PCA-generated readiness dimensions.…”

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Assessing Climate Finance Readiness in the Asia-Pacific Region

Samuwai

Hills

2018

Sustainability

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Readiness is the current mantra in the climate finance discourse and is a key determinant for accessing climate finance. This study develops and applies an analytical 3-dimensional framework to appraise climate finance readiness in selected Asia-Pacific countries. Three dimensions of readiness are identified: (1) Policies and Institutions, (2) Knowledge Management and Learning, and (3) Fiscal Policy Environment. Using the Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review as the basis for such framework, the study uncovers a massive readiness gap between countries in the Asian sub-region and those in the Pacific sub-region. The study also found that readiness has a predictable, yet small, impact on the magnitude of climate finance accessed. This suggests that improving readiness alone is not sufficient to unlock climate finance, as access to climate finance is to a larger extent determined by other factors; this is critical to shaping readiness endeavors for the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), as well as for donors. This study argues for a rethink in the PSIDS current readiness approach, reducing emphasis on multilateral and private flows and diversifying through practical and uncomplicated bilateral and remittance sources. These two sources of finances have a good track record of consistently mobilizing external finance to PSIDS despite their climate finance readiness status. Broadening readiness efforts towards these two alternative funding sources extends the feasibility of the current readiness approach. The present direction of climate finance readiness offers a continuing access dilemma to many of the PSIDS, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.

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“…In this case, integrated resilient development outcomes will entail societal well-being, gender-sensitive livelihoods, and sustainable production and consumption (Kilroy 2015 ). Similarly, ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) outcomes will be influenced by restoration as well as land use planning that mitigates flooding impacts (Khan and Amelie 2015 ).…”

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Hotspots 2.0: Toward an integrated understanding of stressors and response options

Khan

Cundill

2018

Ambio

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Integrated and transdisciplinary approaches are necessary in hotspots research where the intention is to influence policy and practice. Knowing that climate change will impact major ecosystem services and the sustainability of life support systems, a critical examination of the hotspot concept and approach is undertaken to pursue synergistic responses. Hotspots 2.0 embodies current thinking about planning towards multiple drivers of change and seeing human and natural systems as mutually inter-dependent and benefiting from integrated policy approaches. Such proposed adaptation interventions to inter-related stressors will complement biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction, and human well-being. Through a systematic review, we assess 114 relevant peer review cases to examine integrative responses to climatic and non-climatic vulnerabilities in various hotspot regions. Furthermore, we illustrate the utility of the Hotspots 2.0 approach using emerging insights from the ‘Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia’ in semi-arid regions, deltas, and glacier-fed river basin hotspots. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-018-1120-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Assessing climate change readiness in Seychelles: implications for ecosystem-based adaptation mainstreaming and marine spatial planning

Cited by 51 publications

References 41 publications

Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Assessing Climate Finance Readiness in the Asia-Pacific Region

Hotspots 2.0: Toward an integrated understanding of stressors and response options

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