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CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNITY‐BASED ADAPTATION: DISCOVERING THE POTENTIAL FOR TRANSFORMATION
Author(s) -
Dodman David,
Mitlin Diana
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1772
Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , citizen journalism , politics , climate change adaptation , psychological intervention , climate change , political science , participatory development , environmental resource management , environmental planning , sociology , process management , public administration , business , economics , psychology , geography , law , ecology , neuroscience , psychiatry , biology
This paper considers community‐based adaptation (CBA) to climate change and its relationship to the theory and practice of participatory development. It is argued that CBA needs to recognise the considered experience of participatory development to date, particularly in relation to local involvement in project planning and implementation, as well as acknowledging the specific challenges raised by climate change. Without attention to risks and uncertainty, political structures and institutions, the necessarily multi‐level nature of adaptation policy and programming, and the links between mitigation and adaptation politics and practice, outcomes of CBA interventions are unlikely to support pro‐poor development. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.