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Hans Nicolai Adam
Researcher at Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Publications - 11
Citations - 335
Hans Nicolai Adam is an academic researcher from Norwegian Institute for Water Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Quality assurance. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 117 citations. Previous affiliations of Hans Nicolai Adam include Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
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Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?
Siri Eriksen,E. Lisa F. Schipper,Morgan Scoville-Simonds,Morgan Scoville-Simonds,Katharine Vincent,Hans Nicolai Adam,Nick Brooks,Nick Brooks,Brian Harding,Dil B. Khatri,Lutgart Lenaerts,Diana Liverman,Megan Mills-Novoa,Marianne Mosberg,Synne Movik,Benard Muok,Andrea J. Nightingale,Andrea J. Nightingale,Hemant Ojha,Linda Sygna,Marcus Taylor,Coleen Vogel,J. West +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction and highlight how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability.
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Climate change and uncertainty from ‘above’ and ‘below’: perspectives from India
Lyla Mehta,Shilpi Srivastava,Hans Nicolai Adam,Hans Nicolai Adam,Alankar,Shibaji Bose,Upasona Ghosh,Vijay Kumar +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that diverse knowledge and approaches need to be deployed to understand and embrace climate related uncertainties in order to facilitate socially just adaptation, and demonstrate deep differences in ways different actors understand and experience climate change and uncertainty.
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Mainstreaming adaptation in India – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and climate change
TL;DR: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has become part of the ‘mainstreamed’ policy agenda in India.
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Unpacking uncertainty and climate change from ‘above’ and ‘below’
TL;DR: Mehta et al. as discussed by the authors examined the challenges and epistemological tensions by examining the concept of uncertainty in relation to climate change from various vantage points, focusing on the diverse discourses and practices of climate change uncertainty from 'below' and 'above' and their interaction in diverse socio-ecological settings.
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Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia
Lyla Mehta,Lyla Mehta,Shilpi Srivastava,Synne Movik,Hans Nicolai Adam,Rohan D’Souza,Devanathan Parthasarathy,Lars Otto Naess,Nobuhito Ohte +8 more
TL;DR: The Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme as mentioned in this paper proposes the notion of transformation as praxis, where the focus is on bottom-up change, identities, wellbeing and the recovery of agency by marginalized people.