6b650189-4db8-4765-8897-c2db63b71a0e 8ae26013-56bc-4b78-a4f7-a53e0472cfce Irit Eguavoen eguavoen@uni-bonn.de 2017-12-29T10:42:30 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Strategies in The Gambia. The Adaptation Paradigm between Resilience and Transformation 2015-02-01 Climate change adaptation (CCA) has emerged as a new paradigm of development politics. But as adaptation has turned out to be not as tangible as mitigation, controversies about the meaning and implementation have arisen parallel to the concept’s ascent. Experience about political CCA interventions is rare, due to the fact that the major changes are supposed to occur in the future and have uncertain outcomes. The question of how to avoid being passive and rather being proactive in this unknown territory is shaping the discourse of the contested political arena of adaptation and discusses the relationship between adaptation and development. Even though there is evidence that adaptation is linked to processes of societal transformation and development, these linkages pose challenges to scientists and decision makers alike, especially because adaptation has the same target group - the most vulnerable people in the most vulnerable countries. Critical voices increasingly warn that adaptation might be misunderstood, misused and integrated into business as usual development frameworks. During a research in The Gambia the ongoing process of mainstreaming CCA into development strategies was followed. Analysing the policy documents, conducting (expert)interviews and working with the leading national environment authority of the country provided a practical way of understanding the mainstreaming process and its linkages to other processes. These insights are discussed in view of the possible future pathway of adaptation. Hereby, the concepts of resilience and transformation serve as central framework. The study concludes that there is a lot of actionism noticeable on the political scale which offers windows for transformative processes. Many of these chances are, however, not seized due to a tangle of country-intern and extern factors. Nevertheless some pragmatic but simultaneously creative approaches from the Gambian climate change network might provide some adaptation and development co-benefits. Masterthesis conducted by Hannes Lauer in the Gambia in 2014. Irit Eguavoen Center for Development Research, Department: Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn Senior Researcher +49-228-73-4912 Walter-Flex-Straße 3 Bonn 53113 Germany eguavoen@uni-bonn.de Hannes Lauer HannesLauer@gmx.de https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=6b650189-4db8-4765-8897-c2db63b71a0e&fname=type_scientific_publication.png large_thumbnail png social science government advisory body GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet governance NAPA transformation climate change adaptation Gambia Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions Publication in progress. Please ask Point of Conatct to get access. Citation: Lauer, H. (2015): Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Strategies in The Gambia. The Adaptation Paradigm between Resilience and Transformation. Occasional Papers of the Centre for Development Geography, No. 03, Bonn, Ferbruary, 2015. society -16.870577709733638 -13.662569897679592 13.058061336874523 14.061974762927193 PDF Irit Eguavoen eguavoen@uni-bonn.de 2016-03-24 By email https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=6b650189-4db8-4765-8897-c2db63b71a0e&fname=WSC_soc_mainstreaming-climate-change-adaptation_the-gambia.pdf&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download WSC_soc_mainstreaming-climate-change-adaptation_the-gambia.pdf File to download