Status of Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia Region

Ahmed, Ahsan Uddin; Appadurai, Arivudai Nambi; Neelormi, Sharmind

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99347-8_7

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“…Governments in the HKH have started to integrate and mainstream climate change in their development planning and budgeting systems (Ahmed et al 2018). The establishment of a trust fund in Bangladesh and climate change budget code in Nepal are some examples of these mainstreaming efforts.…”

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“…Research into field-level evidence shows that government-run adaptation efforts in the South Asia region are mostly extensions of business-as-usual activities, which might be inadequate in the long run to meet adaptation needs under the post-NDC global emission regime (Ahmed et al 2018). Exceptions, like GLOF risk mitigation projects, are rare.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The media has often been playing a supporting role, especially in promoting good CBA practices and highlighting the adaptation needs of certain vulnerable groups and locations in the HKH. It has also played a significant role in highlighting the need for participatory governance in climate financing in a few HKH countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal (Ahmed et al 2018). The inspiring reports of electronic and printed media in Bangladesh have encouraged many non-state actors to emulate CBA activities in different ecosystems, while the media in Nepal has been involved in LAPA processes.…”

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“…Moreover, CBA activities embrace small-scale water management practices, DRR practices, and creation of protection measures either to reduce vulnerability by reducing exposure to known climate-induced hazard(s) or to reduce sensitivity to such known hazards (Ahmed 2010). Although such measures are gaining rapid popularity among users (because of their relative simplicity to replicate at low cost), as well as among non-state actors, it is argued that they might not be adequate in ensuring resilience of affected communities to such a considerable extent that the remaining vulnerability appears only negligible (Ahmed et al 2018).…”

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Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed

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Choudhury

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The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

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“…Climate change impacts in South Asia are becoming more frequent and destructive to human and natural systems (Wijngaard et al, 2019;Ahmed et al, 2019). Climate change adaptation (CCA) is, therefore, increasingly necessary.…”

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Power interplay between actors in climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia

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To address the impacts of climate change, countries in South Asia are increasingly making efforts to design climate change adaptation (CCA) policies. Such policies are prepared in a complex power-loaded environment, where different policy actors struggle with one another to meet their personal or collective interests. Current CCA policy research highlights the importance of power in policy-making, but few studies have looked into this systematically.This dissertation therefore aims to study the role of power in CCA policy-making in South Asia and to recommend ways to deal with the negative effects of power.The research adopts an abductive research design, using qualitative case studies in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Case studies at local, national and transboundary level are conducted to study how actors' power interplay influences CCA policy-making processes and policies.This dissertation proposes a power interplay framework that describes interactions between policy actors and how actors deploy material and ideational resources to influence one another.It presents evidence of how policy actors use these resources at local and regional level to exclude local policy actors and push for short-termism in local adaptation plans and in the planning process for the transboundary Brahmaputra River basin. It shows that multiple climate policy paradigms shape the way in which adaptation is framed and approached by policy actors and that these paradigms have an important influence on how power interplay evolves.To reduce the negative effects of power -for example, the exclusion of actors -I distilled four power-sensitive design principles (PDPs) from other social science disciplines for application in the CCA context. The results of this dissertation offer theoretical contributions to the study of CCA policy-making in South Asia, and concrete and practically relevant PDPs are proposed to improve long-term CCA planning. Chapter 4Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River 75

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Climate Change Diplomacy, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies in South Asian Countries: A Critical Review

Islam

Tamanna²,

Noman

et al. 2022

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Status of Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia Region

Cited by 39 publications

References 15 publications

Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed

Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed

Power interplay between actors in climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia

Climate Change Diplomacy, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies in South Asian Countries: A Critical Review

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