Measuring the dimensions of adaptive capacity: a psychometric approach

Lockwood, Michael; Raymond, Christopher M.; Oczkowski, Edward; Morrison, Michael A.

doi:10.5751/es-07203-200137

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“…A governança é uma das dimensões importantes para o desenvolvimento da capacidade adaptativa (Lockwood et al, 2015). Ela abarca arranjos institucionais que potencializam o engajamento individual e comunitário, estendendo a participação pública na tomada de decisão e implementação das ações.…”

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Governança ambiental urbana em face das mudanças climáticas

Jacobi

Sulaiman

2016

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Governança ambiental urbana em face das mudanças climáticas

Jacobi

Sulaiman

2016

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“…The adaptive capacity of SES is strongly linked to how social systems perceive their resilience towards change [22,32]. Lockwood et al proposed a psychometric approach for assessing adaptive capacity in four dimensions: social capital, human/financial/physical capital, management approach and governance [32].…”

Section: Theoretical Framework For Assessing Adaptive Capacitymentioning

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Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon

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Building resilient sustainable social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to enhance their adaptive capacities. Communal participative land-use planning (Zonificación Participativa Comunal-ZPC) is a tool designed for communities to integrating local and scientific knowledge to sustainably organize and manage their SES. Between 2006 and 2011, a ZPC was developed with communities in the buffer zone of Cordillera Azul National Park (Peru), where rapid demographic changes are converting pre-montane seasonally dry forest into agricultural land. Herein, we analyse how the ZPC enhanced adaptive capacity, enabling the SES to cope with environmental, political and economic changes. Based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews, communities are analysed along their capacities in the dimensions social capital, learning, adaptive management and governance. An analysis of yearly high-resolution forest cover data supports our findings. Deforestation activities in biologically sensitive zones decreased rapidly during the time of the ZPC implementation. We find that particularly the long-term presence of the bridging institution and the continuous testing and reflection of the integrated "hybrid knowledge" enabled communities to develop adaptive capacities. The analysis of ZPC our results reveals the enabling conditions for promoting the learning process to develop a sustainable land-use management in the context of migration and rapid changes.

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“…Perhaps the best way of ensuring accurate assessment of subjective resilience is to build on the growing number of approaches and frameworks (see Marshall and Marshall 2007;Marshall 2010;Choptiany et al 2015;Nguyen and James 2013;Grothmann and Patt 2005;Seara 2014;Lockwood et al's 2015), as well as those from wider related fields, and ensure that the lessons learned from their applications are shared, taken forward and further refined. Above all, maintaining the diversity of methods and approaches that range in complexity, scope and focus will be important in gaining a more holistic understanding of resilience.…”

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“…Confounding factors, such as what Editor: Shuaib Lwasa. mix of indicators to choose, which systems and scale of analysis to apply, and how to recognise the context-specific nature of resilience each muddy the waters (Béné et al 2015). Indeed, despite growing global interest in supporting resilience-building activities, existing approaches to the measurement and tracking of resilience have generally not been able to the deliver the desired policy support (Levine 2014).…”

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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

2016

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How should we measure a household's resilience to climate extremes, climate change or other evolving threats? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of 'objective' frameworks and methods of indicator selection. These typically depend on a range of observable socio-economic variables, such as levels of income, the extent of a household's social capital or its access to social safety nets. Yet while objective methods have their uses, they suffer from well-documented weaknesses. This paper advocates for the use of an alternative but complementary method: the measurement of 'subjective' resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people have an understanding of the factors that contribute to their ability to anticipate, buffer and adapt to disturbance and change. Subjective household resilience therefore relates to an individual's cognitive and affective self-evaluation of their household's capabilities and capacities in responding to risk. We discuss the advantages and limitations of measuring subjective household resilience and highlight its relationships with other concepts such as perceived adaptive capacity, subjective well-being and psychological resilience. We then put forward different options for the design and delivery of survey questions on subjective household resilience. While the approach we describe is focused at the household level, we show how it has the potential to be aggregated to inform sub-national or national resilience metrics and indicators. Lastly, we highlight how subjective methods of resilience assessment could be used to improve policy and decision-making. Above all, we argue that, alongside traditional objective measures and indicators, efforts to measure resilience should take into account subjective aspects of household resilience in order to ensure a more holistic understanding of resilience to climate extremes and disasters.

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Measuring the dimensions of adaptive capacity: a psychometric approach

Cited by 118 publications

References 74 publications

Governança ambiental urbana em face das mudanças climáticas

Governança ambiental urbana em face das mudanças climáticas

Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon

‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

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