The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries : Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective.
Title:
The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries : Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective.
Author:
Peissker, Tina.
ISBN:
9783954895496
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (109 pages)
Contents:
The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective -- Index -- Acronyms -- List of Figures, Tables and Graphs -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Natural Disasters in the Scope of Social Sciences -- 1.2 Theoretical Framework and Conceptualization -- 1.2.1 Governance in Social-Ecological Systems -- 1.2.2 Vulnerability and Adaptation to External Stressors -- 1.2.3 Collective Learning Processes in Social-Ecological Systems -- 1.3 Measuring Collective Learning Processes and Vulnerability -- 1.4 Case Study Selection -- 1.4.1 Why Studying Floods in Developing Countries? -- 1.4.2 Comparative Method and Case-Studies -- 2 Bangladesh - Learning How to Life with Extreme Floods -- 2.1 Parameters of Flood and Disaster Management -- 2.1.1 Political Transition and the Governance of Flood Management -- 2.1.2 Complexity of Flood Disasters and Vulnerability -- 2.2 Learning Processes in the Governance of Flood Management before 1988 until Recently -- 2.2.1 Development Prior to1988 -- 2.2.2 Changes after the Floods of 1988 -- 2.2.3 Changes after the Floods of 1998 -- 2.3 Collective Learning Processes in the Governance of Flood and Disaster Managementin Bangladesh -- 3 Pakistan - First Steps towards Change -- 3.1 Parameters of Flood and Disaster Management -- 3.1.1 Political Transition and Flood Management -- 3.1.2 Complexity of Flood Disasters and Vulnerability -- 3.2 Learning Processes in the Governance of Flood Management after 1971 -- 3.2.1 Development in the Flood and Disaster Management after 1971 -- 3.2.2 The Floods of 2010 and their Aftermath -- 3.3 Collective Learning Processes in the Governance of Flood and Disaster Managementin Pakistan -- 4 Conclusion -- 4.1 Collective Learning in Flood and Disaster Management: A Comparison -- 4.2 Summary of Findings.
4.2.2 The Way Collective Learning Changes Vulnerability -- 4.3 Limitations and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Annex.
Abstract:
The prospect of the adverse effects that global climate change will have on human societies, opened up a discourse about the way adaptation should be managed. In order to finance adaptation measures in the most severe affected countries, the parties of the Kyoto Protocol established the Adaptation Fund in 2007. In view of the limited resources that are available for adaptation, scales for the prioritization of countries that are based on their suspected vulnerability, have been developed in literature. But so far, indicators of vulnerability reflect only the general indicators of human development, and therefore, fail to capture the complex structures of vulnerability. In order to capture the mentioned complexity in a more satisfactory way, this book highlights the theory of collective learning. The collective learning approach assumes that vulnerability can be significantly decreased when governance systems adapt to external changes through collective learning processes. This study connects to this notion, and therefore, it assesses the influence of collective learning processes on the vulnerability of the Bangladeshi and Pakistani society towards flood hazards. This determinant of vulnerability is used to capture the matter's complexity. Biographische Informationen Tina Peißker, Dipl. Pol. was born next to Jena, in Germany in 1986. In 2011, she obtained her diplom (equivalent of the MA) in political sciences at the University of Potsdam and the University of Auckland. In the course of her studies, the author gathered profound practical experience in research, and consultancy of environmental- and development politics. These experiences include a four-months-collaboration with the Asociación para Políticas Públicas, and the national government regarding the introduction of alternative energy resources in Argentina in 2009. In the near future,
the collaboration with the Programa de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales y Ambiente is planned in terms of the climate change in cities.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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