Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into the European Union’s development assistance

Roeck, Frederik De; Orbie, Jan; Delputte, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.12.005

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“…In particular, development activities globally are recognized as being in need of 'climate proofing' to ensure they are sustainable, while also strengthening resilience to climate change in vulnerable countries (e.g. De Roeck et al, 2018). Temporary labour mobility schemes should be no exception to climate mainstreaming, yet it has been noted that those schemes in Australia (and New Zealand) do not currently recognize the importance of climate change adaptation, or set climate change adaptation as a component of their goals (Gromilova, 2015).…”

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Investing in home: development outcomes and climate change adaptation for seasonal workers living between Solomon Islands and Australia

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McMichael

McNamara

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Migration and Development

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Labour migration is considered an important pathway for improving economic development in countries of origin. In recent years, labour migration, through the 'migration as adaptation' discourse, has been further positioned as a response to changing environmental conditions in places of high climate risk, such as the Pacific Islands region. However, limited empirical work examines whether and how labour mobility schemes enhance both development outcomes and climate change adaptation. This paper considers how temporary and circular labour migrants from Solomon Islands, who are participants in Australia's Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), are investing in their lives, households and villages in their country of origin in ways that contribute to development and climate change adaptation. Based on in-depth qualitative research with twelve Solomon Islander SWP participants working on citrus farms in the Mildura region, Australia, we find that investments (via funding, resources and skills) made by labour migrants contribute to development and in-situ climate change adaptation, enabling aspirations for a resilient futures in their community of origin. However, we argue climate change considerations should be formally integrated and mainstreamed into the SWP to fully enable possibilities for transformative climate change adaptation.

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Investing in home: development outcomes and climate change adaptation for seasonal workers living between Solomon Islands and Australia

Dun

McMichael

McNamara

et al. 2022

Migration and Development

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“…If this mainstreaming had already occurred, adaptation aid distribution should be related, at least in part, to the climate-sensitive of countries’ health sectors. For project run by the EU itself, this mainstreaming process has already started [80], which also seems to be the case for Sweden and the UK if we believe practitioners working in these countries [29,30]. Yet, as this study shows, so far climate-sensitivity—at least of the health sector—does not play a role for how adaptation aid is allocated in a sample considering all donor-recipient pairs.…”

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“…Thus, the mainstreaming of adaptation aid, i.e., the integration of adaptation and development, does not yet seem to have occurred. Although others find that mainstreaming does occur for development projects run directly by the EU [80], the same does not seem to be the case at the level of the individual donors, and thus for bilateral adaptation aid. This does not mean, however, that individual donors, such as for example Sweden or the UK, are not following the lead of the EU in mainstreaming climate adaptation project, but in the cross-section of 28 donor countries mainstreaming of adaptation aid cannot be detected.…”

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Adaptation and Health: Are Countries with More Climate-Sensitive Health Sectors More Likely to Receive Adaptation Aid?

Weiler

2019

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Climate change poses a severe challenge for many developing countries, and the need to adapt has been widely recognized. Public health is one of the sectors where adaptation is necessary, as a warming climate likely affects general health conditions, the spread of various diseases, etc. Some countries are more affected by such climatic challenges, as their climate sensitivity—both to health-related issues and to climate change in general—is higher. This study examines whether more climate-sensitive countries are more likely to receive support from donors through the relatively new channel of adaptation aid, with a particular focus on the health sector. To investigate this relationship, this study proposes and operationalizes a new indicator to capture climate sensitivity of countries’ health sectors. The results, however, indicate that climate sensitivity does not matter for adaptation aid allocation. Instead, adaptation aid to a large degree follows development aid. In light of the promises repeatedly made by donors in the climate negotiations that adaptation aid should go to the most vulnerable, developing countries should push for a different allocation mechanism of adaptation aid in future negotiation rounds.

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“…Second, the design of research protocols for manual content analysis often relies on the a priori determination of conceptual categories, which is challenging given the mutable and contested nature of key concepts in adaptation governance (Head, ; Levin, Cashore, Bernstein, & Auld, ; Pollitt, ), the fuzziness of adaptation as a distinct problem from issues like risk management (Bauer & Steurer, ; Dabrowski, ; Hetz, ; Uittenbroek, Janssen‐Jansen, & Runhaar, ; Viguié & Hallegatte, ; Wamsler & Pauleit, ), and differences in the understanding and use of these concepts across places and sectors (Dupuis & Knoepfel, ; Keenan, King, & Willis, ). While identification and classification of adaptation in stand‐alone climate policies is relatively straightforward, identifying adaptation‐relevant policies from related domains such as water management or sustainable development is a key limitation in current content analysis approaches (Dupuis & Knoepfel, ).…”

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Frontiers in data analytics for adaptation research: Topic modeling

Lesnikowski

Belfer

Rodman

et al. 2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Rapid growth over the past two decades in digitized textual information represents untapped potential for methodological innovations in the adaptation governance literature that draw on machine learning approaches already being applied in other areas of computational social sciences. This Focus Article explores the potential for text mining techniques, specifically topic modeling, to leverage this data for large-scale analysis of the content of adaptation policy documents. We provide an overview of the assumptions and procedures that underlie the use of topic modeling, and discuss key areas in the adaptation governance literature where topic modeling could provide valuable insights. We demonstrate the diversity of potential applications for topic modeling with two examples that examine: (a) how adaptation is being talked about by political leaders in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (b) how adaptation is being discussed by decision-makers and public administrators in Canadian municipalities using documents collected from 25 city council archives. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation K E Y W O R D S climate change adaptation, governance, policy, quantitative text analysis, topic models 1 | INTRODUCTION Text-based research methods have been a cornerstone of qualitative social science methods since the 1950s (Lasswell, 1952). These approaches see documents as meaningful artifacts that can be analyzed for their thematic and semantic content (Krippendorff, 2013), and they form a core component of the climate change adaptation governance literature. In lieu of directly observable and measurable indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation governance research relies on written records, surveys, and interviews as its primary information sources about how different actors are responding to climate change impacts. Content analysis methods are commonly applied to sources such as government reports, strategic planning documents, peer reviewed and gray literature, and media stories (Araos et al.

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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into the European Union’s development assistance

Cited by 29 publications

References 11 publications

Investing in home: development outcomes and climate change adaptation for seasonal workers living between Solomon Islands and Australia

Investing in home: development outcomes and climate change adaptation for seasonal workers living between Solomon Islands and Australia

Adaptation and Health: Are Countries with More Climate-Sensitive Health Sectors More Likely to Receive Adaptation Aid?

Frontiers in data analytics for adaptation research: Topic modeling

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