Climate Adaption and Development Flashcards
What is resilience?
Capacity of a system to adjust to disturbances while still maintaining essential functions and feedbacks
What are risks in resilience discourse?
Disturbances that exceed capacity of a social-ecological system to adjust
How does a governance need to adapt to resilience discourse?
Governance system need to relate to environmental assets in order to secure capacity to support societal development for a long time into the future –> sustainable development
Folke, 2006
What potential do disturbances (i.e. risk) have in a resilent socio-ecological sytem?
Potential to create opportunity for innovation and for development
Folke, 2006
What are the four fans blades to the anti-politics machine?
- Package development, construct space
- Isolate the ‘local’, ignore history
- Separate politics to scope and fund project
- Rendering of the technical
- Entrench bureaucratic power
What is the point of entry for the anti politics machine?
Takes “poverty” as its point of entry and justification for reinforcing and expanding exercise of bureaucratic state power
Ferguson, 1994
What does climate protection act as in climate policy?
Climate protection acts an empty signifier in climate policy whereby international organisations claim to be favour of climate protection and stick to business as usual at the same time
Bracking (2015)
What is the object of anti politics machine?
- Depoliticisation as an object –> failure serves particular stakeholders well
- Their recommendations deem appropriate social behaviours and methods to encourage their practice (Cox and Revi, 2015)
- Post-political approach where politics and power are removed from decision making and replaced with technical logics
Bracking (2015)
What does Future Forests do and what is it an example of?
- Company called Future Forests sell branded carbon offset products to promote so-called CarbonNeutral living, e.g. flights, driving, homes by planting trees which theoretically absorb carbon from the atmosphere
- Concept of anti politics
Bachram (2004)
What is an example of an Inuit political movement and what have they achieved?
- Inuit Circumpolar Council
- Put the field of knowledge and practice of the human dimensions of climate change on the map
Cameron, 2012
What are the two strands of the research conducted into Inuit knowledges and practices?
- Integrate Inuit traditional knowledge into Western scientific understandings of climate change
- Deepen understanding of how climate change will impact Arctic through Intuit understandings of wildlife, sea ice, weather and cultural practices.
- Engage Inuit communities in identification of exposure, vulnerabilities and potential adaptions climactic change -> “local” knowledge bear upon ability of communities to adapt is more important that integration of knowledges
Cameron, 2012
What is the problem with both strands of research into Inuit knowledges and practices?
- Problem with both strands is that there is no mention of the importance of colonialism, even though research is carried out with communities profoundly shaped by colonization
- Any academic project seeking to understand and address Indigenous experiences and knowledges inherits a long tradition of knowledge production that has been intimately related to the colonization of Indigenous peoples
Cameron, 2012
What is Kenya’s NCCRS?
Kenya’s National Climate Change Response Strategy
Symons (2014)
How does Kenya’s NCCRS depoliticise adaption?
Through discourse of apocalyptic and emergency imaginaries
Symons (2014)
Why does Kenya’s NCCRS depoliticise adaption?
- Maintain capitalist strategy of economic growth, especially for climate finance, and ensure adaption policy benefits elite political groups
- Way Kenya can exploit opportunities in a changing climate – carbon markets cited as an opportunity for developing countries to raise additional revenues by NCCRS.
Symons (2014)
