期刊名称:Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection
印刷版ISSN:2327-4336
电子版ISSN:2327-4344
出版年度:2017
卷号:5
期号:11
页码:174-193
DOI:10.4236/gep.2017.511013
语种:English
出版社:Scientific Research Pub
摘要:This article, based on fieldwork in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya, provides an overview of different types of climate change adaptation interventions that are currently being implemented to enhance local community’s adaptive capacity and resilience. We show that CBA interventions, whilst measurably successful from the interventionist perspective, are often structured to cause new scarcities, competing claims and ultimately, various forms and intensities of conflict. We conclude that, instead of targeting “communities” or other groups of “beneficiaries”, the inter-connectedness of multiple (and at times competing) social groups (men and women, the elderly and youth, hunters, loggers, pastoralists and sedentary crop farmers etc.) in relation to the use and distribution of natural resources should be the point of departure for strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity.
关键词:Climate Change AdaptationCommunity-Based AdaptationExclusionConflictsResilienceSocial CapitalKenyaGhana and Burkina