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Climate‐Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Implications for Land Acquisition and Population Relocation
Author(s) -
McDowell Christopher
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12030
Subject(s) - relocation , climate change , corporate governance , environmental planning , population , business , environmental resource management , climate change adaptation , adaptation (eye) , natural resource economics , political science , development economics , geography , economics , finance , ecology , sociology , computer science , biology , programming language , physics , optics , demography
In response to the challenge of climate change developing‐country governments are evolving adaptation and mitigation programmes for which they are seeking international financing. This article presents the findings of a review of national action programmes and other interventions to assess their likely societal impacts with an emphasis on land‐use change, future land acquisitions, population displacement and resettlement. It considers the policy and development challenges involuntary resettlement in particular will pose, and assesses the robustness of current governance arrangements to manage them and cautions that at present the financing arrangements do not prioritise the legal protection of affected populations.