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Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2019.
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Abstract
- This article analyses the role of social protection programmes in contributing to people's resilience to climate risks. Drawing from desk-based and empirical studies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, it finds that social transfers make a strong contribution to the capacity of individuals and households to absorb the negative impacts of climate-related shocks and stresses. They do so through the provision of reliable, national social safety net systems-even when these are not specifically designed to address climate risks. Social protection can also increase the anticipatory capacity of national disaster response systems through scalability mechanisms, or pre-emptively through linkages to early action and early warning mechanisms. Critical knowledge gaps remain in terms of programmes' contributions to the adaptive capacity required for long-term resilience. The findings offer insights beyond social protection on the importance of robust, national administrative systems as a key foundation to support people's resilience to climate risks.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Adult
Male
Risk
Cash transfers
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Safety net
Climate Change
0211 other engineering and technologies
Disaster Planning
Public Policy
02 engineering and technology
social protection
01 natural sciences
Empirical research
Humans
Uganda
cash transfers
Resilience (network)
climate
resilience
Qualitative Research
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Adaptive capacity
Public economics
Warning system
General Social Sciences
Resilience, Psychological
Kenya
Action (philosophy)
Social protection
Papers
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Business
Ethiopia
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14677717 and 03613666
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- Suppl 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e7bd5e186147b624689c2033e2289f8