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Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

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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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This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2021-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 221 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vulnerability.

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Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk in cities in the South

G. Ziervogel
Abstract: Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the global South, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusing on rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physical and ecological infrastructures, may help to address many of the root causes that characterize the unacceptable risks that urban residents face on a daily basis. Linked to this idea, we discuss four entry points for grounding a rights and justice orientation for urban resilience. First, notions of resilience must move away from narrow, financially oriented risk analyses. Second, opportunities must be created for “negotiated resilience”, to allow for attention to processes that support these goals, as well as for the integration of diverse interests. Third, achieving resilience in ways that do justice to the local realities of diverse urban contexts necessitates taking into account endogenous, locally situated processes, knowledges and norms. And finally, urban resilience needs to be placed within the context of global systems, providing an opportunity for African contributions to help reimagine the role that cities might play in these global financial, political and science processes.
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From Resilience to Resourcefulness: A Critique of Resilience Policy and Activism

TL;DR: The authors provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places, based on three main points: resilience is externally defined by state agencies and expert knowledge, a concern with the resilience of places is misplaced in terms of spatial scale, since the processes which shape resilience operate primary at the scale of capitalist social relations, and resourcefulness as an alternative approach for community groups to foster.
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A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change

Lea Berrang-Ford, +150 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic and comprehensive global stocktake of implemented human adaptation to climate change and identify eight priorities for global adaptation research: assess the effectiveness of adaptation responses, enhance the understanding of limits to adaptation, enable individuals and civil society to adapt, include missing places, scholars and scholarship, understand private sector responses, improve methods for synthesizing different forms of evidence, assess the adaptation at different temperature thresholds, and improve the inclusion of timescale and the dynamics of responses.
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Organizational Learning: A Theory Of Action Perspective

TL;DR: Aguilar et al. as discussed by the authors define intervencion as "entrar en un conjunto de relaciones en desarrollo con el proposito de ser util".
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

TL;DR: The 2012 edition of the 2012 edition vii Preface xlv as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about development and the anthropology of modernity, with a focus on post-development.
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Global Warming of 1.5°C

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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a comprehensive assessment of our understanding of global warming of 1.5°C, future climate change, potential impacts and associated risks, emission pathways, and system transitions consistent with 1.0°C global warming, and strengthening the global response to climate change in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
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The anti-politics machine : "development," depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho

TL;DR: The Thaba-Tseka development project as mentioned in this paper has been used to study power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho, and the deployment of development: livestock development the decentralization of crop development and some other programmes of the Thaba Tseka project.
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