Galappaththi, EK, Ford, JD orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-3456 and Bennett, EM (2019) A framework for assessing community adaptation to climate change in a fisheries context. Environmental Science and Policy, 92. pp. 17-26. ISSN 1462-9011
Abstract
There is a rapidly growing body of scholarship on climate change adaptation in diverse contexts globally. Despite this, climate adaptation at the community level has not received adequate conceptual attention, and a limited number of analytical frameworks are available for assessing place-specific adaptations, particularly in a fisheries context. We use conceptual material from social-ecological systems (SES) resilience and human development resilience to build an integrated framework for evaluating community adaptations to climate change in a fisheries setting. The framework defines resilience as the combined result of coping, adapting, and transforming—recognizing resilience as a system’s capacity and as a process. This understanding of resilience integrates with the three development resilience concepts of resistance, rootedness, and resourcefulness to develop ‘place-based elements’ which refer to collective action, institutions, agency, and indigenous and local knowledge systems. The proposed framework can capture a local setting’s place-specific attributes relating to the well-being of individuals, households, and communities, and the through integration of SES and human development conceptualizations addresses some of the key critiques of the notion of resilience. We have proposed this framework for application in context-specific environments—including fisheries—as a means of assessing community adaptations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Crown Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Environmental Science & Policy. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | Adaptation; Climate change; Conceptual framework; Development; Fisheries; Place-based elements; Resilience |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2019 10:59 |
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2019 01:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.11.005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:140869 |