Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation?

Eriksen, Siri; Næss, Lars Otto; Haug, Ruth; Lenaerts, Lutgart; Bhonagiri, Aditi

doi:10.19088/1968-2017.149

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“…In particular, how does the claiming of authority – and recognition or contestation of that authority – emerge in disputes and negotiations over governance of water infrastructure and post-disaster interventions? Studying such micro-political dynamics can shed light on how to address the processes and relations producing long-term vulnerability, and to help in moving beyond measures aimed at reactively alleviating the outcomes of such processes for vulnerable groups (Eriksen et al., 2017). In particular, it enhances our understanding of the role that disruption and environmental variability play in opening up or closing down spaces for transforming socio-political relations.…”

Section: Practices Authority and Disaster Vulnerability: Theoreticalmentioning

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The politics of disaster vulnerability: Flooding, post-disaster interventions and water governance in Baltistan, Pakistan

Arifeen

Eriksen

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper uses governance of water infrastructure in two settlements of Baltistan as an entry point to examine the co-production of power and vulnerability. Access to water and irrigated land is a critical factor in determining how the effects of disasters, such as flooding, are socially distributed within a community. At the same time, the governance of water is intimately linked to the longer-term politics of disaster vulnerability. We examine three different forms of disputes over water infrastructure where struggles over authority and social ordering materialise: (i) between and within settlements over access to a water resource; (ii) within settlements over post-disaster water infrastructure development and (iii) between a settlement and the district government over land, water rights and flood protection. The findings illustrate that the governance of water infrastructure involves continuous negotiations, contestations and disputes over access rights. Access to water resources as an expression of rights plays a key role in the recognition of authority relations. In particular, influential individuals seek to legitimise their leadership role in a settlement by representing the rights and interests of groups in the negotiation of these disputes. However, environmental variability and change, including disasters and post-disaster development interventions, alter perceptions of what constitute legitimate rights, and provide spaces for popular contestation of authority relations through silent non-compliance with decisions. The close interlinkages between material and non-material effects of a disaster are a key feature of the co-production of power and vulnerability. By adding authority relations to studies of village-level practices around disasters, we enrich our understanding of the co-production of power and vulnerability and how these dynamics unfold over time. It is only by investigating this co-production that a deeper understanding can be developed of the mechanisms through which vulnerability is either exacerbated or reduced for particular groups.

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The politics of disaster vulnerability: Flooding, post-disaster interventions and water governance in Baltistan, Pakistan

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2019

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“…Projections suggest that by 2050, 143 million people could be displaced from their homes due to rising sea levels, and catastrophic weather events, with rural and developing areas facing the greatest impact (Rigaud et al, 2018). There is some research to suggest that concentrated humanitarian efforts, like addressing housing insecurity, will contribute to climate change adaptation (Eriksen et al, 2017). These include sustainable methods for developing community infrastructure and housing.…”

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Crisis to Adaptation: Assessing the Drivers of Participation in Sustainable Off-Grid Construction

Colby¹,

Whitley²

2022

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development outlines 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), one of which is about creating and enhancing sustainable communities. Earthship Biotecture, with its own model within the broader ecovillage landscape, has emerged both as a transformative architecture practice and a social movement directly addressing sustainability in the building of houses and communities. This approach to off-grid infrastructure promotes do-it-yourself building utilizing trash as core building materials. Drawing on 24 interviews with Earthship Biotecture builders, we assess what pushed them out of mainstream livelihoods and what pulled them into the Earthship Biotecture community. We find that individuals were largely pushed due to personal crisis, experience of environmental tragedy, or awareness of environmental crisis. The pulls were to gain skills, overcome tragedy, become part of the solution, and ultimately be part of a community.

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This study aims to assess the richness of knowledge about medicinal plants in the Truká indigenous community, highlighting the most important ones, as well as verifying whether that knowledge is influenced by socioeconomic factors. A survey on species used as therapeutic resources was carried out through semi-structured interviews, and the indices of use value (UV), relative importance (RI), and salience (SI) of the species were calculated. Additionally, the relationship of socioeconomic factors with the knowledge of medicinal plants was evaluated using generalized linear models (GLM). Ninety-nine ethnospecies were registered, and those most relevant to the indigenous community were among the botanical families Fabaceae and Lamiaceae. The plants most important to the residents of the community were used mainly for hypertension and anxiety. Older people, and those with a greater number of residents at home and lower income, knew a greater number of medicinal plants.

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Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation?

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The politics of disaster vulnerability: Flooding, post-disaster interventions and water governance in Baltistan, Pakistan

The politics of disaster vulnerability: Flooding, post-disaster interventions and water governance in Baltistan, Pakistan

Crisis to Adaptation: Assessing the Drivers of Participation in Sustainable Off-Grid Construction

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