Financing for Sustainable Development
Fankhauser, S. and D.W. Pearce (2014). Book chapter in: G. Atkinson, S. Dietz, E. Neumayer and M. Agarwala, eds. Handbook of Sustainable Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Topic: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
Flood insurance in England – An assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk
By applying our analytical framework we find an absence of formal incentive mechanisms for risk reduction in the existing and proposed Flood Re scheme. We identify the barriers for applying insurance to risk reduction and point to some possible modifications in the Flood Re proposal to deliver a greater link between risk transfer and risk reduction. read more »
Up-scaling finance for community-based adaptation
Fenton, A., Gallagher, D., Wright, H., Huq, S., Nyandiga, C. 2014. Climate and Development, 6, 388-397.
Taking an organisational approach to private sector adaptation – the case of Tata Teleservices in India
A growing paradigm of ‘engaging the private sector’ is noticeable in all areas of climate risk management and adaptation. However, there is limited empirical investigation into what action companies are … read more »
Combining nexus and resilience thinking in a novel framework to enable more equitable and just outcomes
Resilience and nexus thinking are often applied separately to investigate social-ecological systems (SES), wherein both approaches are critiqued for a lack of explicit focus on issues of justice and equity. This paper synthesises the main strengths and shortcomings of these approaches, before drawing on resilience and nexus strengths to present a novel, integrated framework to […]
A conceptual framework for understanding Forest-Socio-ecologicalsystems.
Kalaba, F.K., (2014) A conceptual Framework for understanding Forest-Socio-ecologicalsystems. Biodiversity Conservation, 14, pp 3391-3403
Barriers to climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from northeast Ghana & systematic literature review
Despite the international significance attached to climate change adaptation, there remains a lack of understanding of the key barriers that impede the effective implementation of adaptation strategies by households across sub-Saharan Africa. Better understanding of the vulnerability of agriculture-dependent households to climate variability requires exploration of the barriers that constrain the implementation of adaptation strategies. […]
Climate change and International River Boundaries: fixed points in shifting sands
We review the historical and legal role of International River Boundaries highlighting the paradox that exists between the stability needed for a boundary and the dynamism of fluvial landscapes in a changing climate. read more »
The land certification program and off-farm employment in Ethiopia
Land tenure security has long been touted as key to increased performance of the agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper utilizes household level panel data to analyse the impact … read more »
Adaptation to Climate Change and US Residential Energy Use – Does Adaptation Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
This research goes beyond previous analyses by evaluating which drivers would explain the relationship between climate change and energy use. read more »