Manufactured global-change risk pathways in industrial-based agrarian development

Warner, Benjamin P.; Kuzdas, Christopher

doi:10.1080/17565529.2015.1085359

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“…In this way, power differentials may be conceptualized as a synthesis of the other two sets of issues described above. Vulnerability occurs not only because of the marginalization or poverty of particular social groups but also through the processes that perpetuate or expand marginalization and poverty, potentially including adaptation planning (Anguelovski et al, 2016;Atteridge & Remling, 2018;Warner & Kuzdas, 2016). Groups with more political power are more likely to secure funding to plan for, cope with, and respond to climate-related impacts.…”

Section: Power Differentialsmentioning

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Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

Thomas

Hardy

Lazrus

et al. 2018

WIREs Climate Change

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The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions. Differential human vulnerability to environmental hazards results from a range of social, economic, historical, and political factors, all of which operate at multiple scales. While adaptation to climate change has been the dominant focus of policy and research agendas, it is essential to ask as well why some communities and peoples are disproportionately exposed to and affected by climate threats. The cases and synthesis presented here are organized around four key themes (resource access, governance, culture, and knowledge), which we approach from four social science fields (cultural anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and sociology). Social scientific approaches to human vulnerability draw vital attention to the root causes of climate change threats and the reasons that people are forced to adapt to them. Because vulnerability is a multidimensional process rather than an unchanging state, a dynamic social approach to vulnerability is most likely to improve mitigation and adaptation planning efforts. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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Section: Power Differentialsmentioning

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Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

Thomas

Hardy

Lazrus

et al. 2018

WIREs Climate Change

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“…This is troubling for a number of reasons. If adaptation is allowed to simply redistribute risk or vulnerability, it is likely that the greatest risks and vulnerabilities will end up accumulating among people and communities who are already the most marginalized, because they are least involved in planning decisions and have a low capacity to redirect risks and vulnerabilities (see also arguments made by Warner and Kuzdas 15 ). These same groups are often described as already being the most vulnerable.…”

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“…As a case in point, Warner and Kuzdas describe how adaptation action by politically and economically powerful stakeholders in the agricultural sector, including for instance increased use of agro‐technology as a response to droughts, will introduce new risks to the rural poor by changing both physical and institutional contexts. This concept the authors describe as ‘manufactured risk,’ and they argue it will ultimately prevent the sector as a whole from becoming more resilient to climate change even though it may improve adaptation outcomes for the more powerful individuals.…”

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Is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it?

Atteridge

Remling

2017

WIREs Climate Change

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As globalization and other pressures intensify the economic, social and biophysical connections between people and places, it seems likely that adaptation responses intended to ameliorate the impacts of climate change might end up shifting risks and vulnerability between people and places. Building on earlier conceptual work in maladaptation and other literature, this article explores the extent to which concerns about vulnerability redistribution have influenced different realms of adaptation practice. The review leads us to conclude that the potential for adaptation to redistribute risk or vulnerability is being given only sparse-and typically superficial-attention by practitioners. Concerns about 'maladaptation', and occasionally vulnerability redistribution specifically, are mentioned on the margins but do not significantly influence the way adaptation choices are made or evaluated by policy makers, project planners or international funds. In research, the conceptual work on maladaptation is yet to translate into a significant body of empirical literature on the distributional impacts of real-world adaptation activities, which we argue calls into question our current knowledge base about adaptation. These gaps are troubling, because a process of cascading adaptation endeavors globally seems likely to eventually re-distribute risks or vulnerabilities to communities that are already marginalized and vulnerable. We conclude by discussing the implications that the potential for vulnerability redistribution might have for the governance of adaptation processes, and offer some reflections on how research might contribute to addressing gaps in knowledge and in practice.

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“…Can land-grabs by large landowners be prevented, and can information and knowledge barriers to equal participation and fair governance be overcome (Barbier 2014 )? Climate adaptation measures, if badly designed, can also introduce new risks for poorer communities while benefiting more politically and economically powerful actors (Mustafa and Wrathall 2011 ;Warner and Kuzdas 2016 ;Henrique and Tschakert 2021 ). Retrofitting adaptation onto existing development agendas risks maladaptation (Eriksen et al 2021 ), yet ignoring existing processes of economic integration and development can trap people in locations or industries that are in economic decline (such as marginal land in urban areas that is prone to flooding) (Dercon 2014b ).…”

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The Relationship between Climate Action and Poverty Reduction

Lankes,

Macquarie,

Soubeyran

et al. 2023

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There is growing awareness that actions by policymakers and international organizations to reduce poverty, and those to mitigate and adapt to climate change, are inextricably linked and interwoven. This paper examines relevant academic and policy literature and evidence on this relationship and explores the potential for a new form of development that simultaneously mitigates climate change, manages its impacts, and improves the wellbeing of people in poverty. First, as a key foundation, it outlines the backdrop in basic moral philosophy, noting that climate action and poverty reduction can be motivated both by a core principle based on the right to development and by the conventional consequentialism that is standard in economics. Second, it reviews assessments of the current and potential future impacts of weakly managed climate change on the wellbeing of those in poverty, paying attention to unequal effects, including by gender. Third, it examines arguments and literature on the economic impacts of climate action and policies and how those affect the wellbeing of people in poverty, highlighting the importance of market failures, technological change, systemic dynamics of transition, and distributional effects of mitigation and adaptation. Finally, the paper surveys the current state of knowledge and understanding of how climate action and poverty reduction can be integrated in policy design, indicating where further research can contribute to a transition that succeeds in both objectives.

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Manufactured global-change risk pathways in industrial-based agrarian development

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

Is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it?

The Relationship between Climate Action and Poverty Reduction

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