Research & Publications

Dynamics of knowledge creation and use for disaster management in Chokwe district, Mozambique

Maria Da Graça; Benedito Jonas; Luis Artur; Siri Ellen Hallstrøm Eriksen; Synne Movik

**Purpose** Disaster management practices depend on societies' knowledge. As climate change rapidly reshapes knowledge, questions arise about how knowledge for disaster management is produced and (re)shaped in modern world and how effective it is to withstand the ever-growing frequency and magnitude…

ChokweMozambiqueKnowledge creation Disaster managementLocal knowledgeHistory

Formal education as a contested pastoral adaptation pathway: insights from southern Kenya

Edwige Marty

In dryland pastoral environments, political and geographical marginalization has historically led to development strategies that poorly account for individual and communities’ spatial and socioeconomic realities. These development legacies, including long-standing epistemic biases in defining what s…

Adaptation PathwaysFeminist Political EcologyPastoralismClimate Change AdaptationEducation

Why Vulnerability Still Matters

Greg Bankoff; Dorothea Hilhorst

We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate…

Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development

Penelope J S Stein, Michael Ashley Stein, Nora Groce, Maria Kett, Emmanuel K Akyeampong, Willliam P Alford, Jayajit Chakraborty, Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Siri H Eriksen, Anne Fracht, Luis Gallegos, Shaun Grech, Pratima Gurung, Asha Hans, Paul Harpur, Sébastien Jodoin, Janet E Lord, Setareki Seru Macanawai, Charlotte V McClain-Nhlapo, Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Rhonda J Moore, Yolanda Muñoz, Vikram Patel, Phuong N Pham, Gerard Quinn, Sarah A Sadlier, Carmel Shachar, Matthew S Smith, Lise Van Susteren

Globally, more than 1 billion people with disabilities are disproportionately and differentially at risk from the climate crisis. Yet there is a notable absence of climate policy, programming, and research at the intersection of disability and climate change. Advancing climate justice urgently requi…

Associating design thinking approach for achieving good governance in existing climate change adaptation practices in Bangladesh

Aasima Kamal Mowni

The integration of design thinking with locally-led climate adaptation represents a novel discourse in Bangladesh. This study examines the intersection of these concepts by engaging key stakeholders involved in various adaptation initiatives in the country’s southwestern region. By doing so, it aims…

Climate ChangeAdaptationLocally Led Adaptation