Dealing with Climate Change: Household Risk Management and Adaptation in Latin America

Báez, Javier E.; Mason, Andrew D.

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“…Vulnerability assessments were performed in Cochabamba and Kota. The cities were chosen as they represent medium-sized cities 1 of the Global South that face the challenges of extensive urban migration, unplanned growth, high poverty levels and low investment in infrastructure and services (Baez and Mason 2008;Gangawala 2011). They are also situated in semi-arid or arid regions with documented problems of water scarcity and governance issues (Bustamente and Médieu, 2012;Gangawala 2011).…”

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“…The Rocha River originates in the Bolivian Andes and flows into the Amazon River through the Rio Grande. The city experiences intensive rains and drought events and has a high population density and agricultural dependence (Baez and Mason, 2008). Cochabamba is known worldwide for its so-called Guerra del Agua (water war) of 1999 which erupted when the urban water system, then managed by the municipal company Servicio Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado (SEMAPA), was privatized.…”

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Assessing vulnerability in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Kota, India: how do stakeholder processes affect suggested climate adaptation interventions?

Wilk

Jönsson

Rydhagen

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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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In Cochabamba, the vulnerability assessment process focused on La Maica community and the agriculture sector. Community stakeholders were involved in workshops while municipal and regional actors participated through interviews. In the Kota process, the municipality was in the geographical focal point and a multilevel stakeholder group focused upon slum inhabitants. The suggested interventions and actions in both cities were dominated by systems (infrastructure and ecosystems) while identified barriers and facilitating factors to implementation revealed a greater acknowledgement of governance issues. Focus on marginalized groups and sectors is facilitated by the direct representations of those issues. While multi-stakeholder processes can be important forums for social learning adaptation planning that benefit vulnerable sectors and groups, with limited inclusion and responsibility given to representatives of marginalized sectors and groups for implementation actions, it is likely that the interests and priorities of more powerful actors will dominate and not contribute to increasing the resilience of the most vulnerable. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Assessing vulnerability in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Kota, India: how do stakeholder processes affect suggested climate adaptation interventions?

Wilk

Jönsson

Rydhagen

et al. 2018

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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“…There are numerous mechanisms that households can rely on to reduce the impact of shocks when they do occur. A key finding in the literature is that protection through these mechanisms against disasters is never more than partial, as consumption shortfalls remain high when faced with extreme shocks (Baez and Mason, 2008;Dercon, 2005;Alderman and Paxson, 1994). This inability to smooth consumption has implications for poverty in a direct way.…”

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Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…The city is one of the large population settlements in the part of the Andean region that is one of the most climate vulnerable in Latin America. It regularly receives intensive rains and periods of drought and has a high population density and agricultural dependence (Baez & Mason, 2008). Many of the city's problems are representative of other large urban centers such as urban migration, unplanned growth, high poverty levels and low investment in infrastructure and services.…”

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Framing and blaming in the Cochabamba water agenda: local, municipal and regional perspectives

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We present framings of water issues at three administrative levels in Cochabamba, Bolivia to increase insight of how actors' perspectives facilitate, obstruct or strengthen suggested actions or solutions. Participatory vulnerability assessments were conducted with leaders in one peri-urban community and municipal and regional officials in waterrelated sectors. Actors framed water problems and potential solutions differently, placing blame most often at other levels of responsibility. While all pointed to the municipality as responsible for solving the most acute water problems, it was acknowledged that the municipality consistently underperforms in its responsibilities. All actors promoted concrete and detailed technical measures as solutions to many problems while governance-related ones such as training and increased cooperation between different levels were only discussed at an abstract level. While fiscal federalism would fit some of the suggested management solutions, issues such as ecosystem protection and flooding with cross-border externalities might require shared yet clearly defined responsibilities between different levels. We suggest that the water war of 2000 and the framings that emerged from it have so strongly impacted the current water management situation that alternative management models and solutions are rarely discussed.

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Dealing with Climate Change: Household Risk Management and Adaptation in Latin America

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

Assessing vulnerability in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Kota, India: how do stakeholder processes affect suggested climate adaptation interventions?

Assessing vulnerability in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Kota, India: how do stakeholder processes affect suggested climate adaptation interventions?

Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi

Framing and blaming in the Cochabamba water agenda: local, municipal and regional perspectives

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