Nation‐building policies in Timor‐Leste: disaster risk reduction, including climate change adaptation

Mercer, Jessica; Kelman, Ilan; Rosario, Francisco do; Lima, Abilio de Deus de Jesus; Silva, Augusto da; Beloff, Anna-Maija; McClean, Alex

doi:10.1111/disa.12082

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“…Second, climate change adaptation is a subset of disaster risk reduction. Empirical studies such as in Shaw et al (2010a, b) and Mercer et al (2014) demonstrate how this theoretical approach would be achieved in practice. In recognizing the similarities alongside the reality that both fields have strong vested interests in remaining separate, Glantz (2015) suggests seeking specific programmes and projects which would ''blend'' climate change and disaster activities, in order to bring both on board.…”

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Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Kelman

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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This article reviews climate change within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR), analyzing how climate change is mentioned in the framework's text and the potential implications for dealing with climate change within the context of disaster risk reduction. Three main categories are examined. First, climate change affecting disaster risk and disasters, demonstrating too much emphasis on the single hazard driver and diminisher of climate change. Second, crosssectoral approaches, for which the SFDRR treads carefully, thereby unfortunately entrenching artificial differences and divisions, although appropriately offering plenty of support to other sectors from disaster risk reduction. Third, implementation, for which climate change plays a suitable role without being overbearing, but for which other hazard influencers should have been treated similarly. Overall, the mentions of climate change within the SFDRR put too much emphasis on the hazard part of disaster risk. Instead, within the context of the three global sustainable development processes that seek agreements in 2015, climate change could have been used to further support an allvulnerabilities and all-resiliences approach. That could be achieved by placing climate change adaptation as one subset within disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation as one subset within sustainable development.

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Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Kelman

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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“…ID26The latter view aligns with the literature that focusses on incorporating local and traditional knowledge into adaptation. Mercer et al (2014) specifically examine this in the context of food security in Atlantic and Indian Ocean SIDS. The authors find a lack of coherence in "approaching food security, in terms of policies and actions not reflecting the ecosystemfood-climate nexus" and "the infrequency with which knowledge integration occurs" (Mercer et al, 2014, p. 5566) (see also Shah and Dulal, 2015).…”

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Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

Robinson¹

2018

ISJ

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Small island developing states (SIDS) are distinct from other developing countries: they are particularly and comparatively more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Efforts to understand national-level vulnerability in these countries are limited. This paper helps to fill this gap and has two main aims. First, it identifies trends in national-level climate change adaptation among SIDS in the Caribbean region. Second, it identifies the limits to adaptation at the national level in these countries. In applying a resilience lens, and using summative content analysis techniques and semi-structured interviews with 26 senior policy-makers, this paper finds that Caribbean SIDS are primarily adapting to changes in hurricane, rainfall, and drought patterns. It also finds that most adaptations are being undertaken in the coastal zone and the water and agriculture sectors, and that there are many factors limiting national-level adaptation. The most commonly reported limit is financing, though not all policy-makers agree that financing is a limit. These findings are important for national SIDS governments and international donors and agencies that will be better able to identify and fill gaps in their adaptation actions and financing. This paper's findings also highlight the importance of depoliticising climate change and prioritising good governance, improving SIDS' access to international adaptation financing, and making the road to a climate-resilient future by walking.

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“…For instance, conceptual confusions, siloed organizations and funding streams have been identified as factors circumventing the ability to address climate security challenges [8]. Actions undertaken to manage these challenges occur in different areas, such as environment and climate change; adaptation and mitigation; natural resource management; peace, security and conflict; disaster risk reduction [9,10]. The responses are also spread across different units in organizations because climate change poses different types of risks and opportunities in different policy areas and geographical contexts.…”

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Integration Conundrums: Framing and Responding to Climate Security Challenges in Development Cooperation

Gyberg

Mobjörk

2021

Sustainability

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This paper contributes to the burgeoning research on the integration of climate-related security risks by organizations. Development organizations have an important preventive mandate and can mitigate climate security challenges in low- and lower-middle-income economies, but they have a complex task, contending with power asymmetries and a very wide set of policy-making processes occurring in tandem. We explore how climate security challenges are being addressed in development organizations through focusing on the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), which has worked with integration of cross-sectoral issues since the 1980s. We narrow in specifically on how the overlaps between two separate policy areas at Sida—climate and conflict—have been framed and responded to in recent years. The study finds that the integration of these two areas is prioritized on a general policy level but that there are obstacles when translating policy into practice. Challenges include conceptual diversity, tensions between expert and general knowledge and differing organizational preconditions. Despite this, integration does occur between the two policy areas on several levels, ranging from a macro-level general awareness of potential overlaps with a “do no harm” ambition, to micro levels of integration in which strategies and interventions are adjusted.

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Nation‐building policies in Timor‐Leste: disaster risk reduction, including climate change adaptation

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

Integration Conundrums: Framing and Responding to Climate Security Challenges in Development Cooperation

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