Louise Cavalcante
Biographic Data
| ID | 1378188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Cavalcante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavalcante |
| SIGNATURE | CAVALCANTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8773-540X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Flash Drought Typologies and Societal Impacts
Flash droughts, characterized by rapid onset and intensification, are increasingly occurring as a consequence of climate change and rising temperatures. However, existing hydrometeorological definitions fail to encompass the full range of flash droughts, many of which have distinct local physical attributes. Consequently, these events often go undetected or unforecast in generic global flash drought assessments and are underrepresented in researc…
It's not all about drought
Drought impacts monitoring has been called the missing piece in drought assessment. The potential to improve drought management is high but uncertain due to rare analyses of impacts datasets, predominantly because there are few impacts monitoring programmes to generate the datasets. Drought impacts monitoring is conducted on the ground in much of Brazil by local observers at monthly and municipality scale to support the Brazilian Drought Monitor.…
Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems
This study applies ‘Social-Ecological Systems (SES)’ concepts with the aim of analysing why and how events happening across spatial, jurisdictional, and temporal scales influence droughts and their impacts in rural communities. To trace the evolution of droughts and their impacts on the livelihood system, we conducted a drought diagnosis in the rural community of Riacho da Cruz in the Banabuiú basin in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. We analys…
From creeping crisis to policy change
This paper aims to understand the national-level policy change that occurred in Brazilian drought management, whereby the policy shifted from reactive crisis management to a drought preparedness approach. We found that a combination of factors supported the policy change, such as the interplay of multiple drought events in different regions of the country, the length and timing of these events, attention paid to the issue, and the role of policy …
Rainwater Harvesting as a Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change and Building Women's Autonomy in Brazilian Semiarid
Cisterns Program aims to mitigate drought impacts through strengthening the adaptive capacity of vulnerable inhabitants in Brazilian Semiarid (BSA). Cisterns promote the ability of farmers to adapt to climatic stresses in long run. This article discusses the impacts of the Rainwater Harvesting Program (RHP) on the livelihoods of women in BSA. Policy implementation has been assessed from capacity building and social mobilization to the constructio…
Role of water infrastructure programs for family farmers in strengthening adaptive capacities to climate change
The semi-arid region of Brazil, marked by low human development indicators, has historically suffered from water scarcity, being the focus of public policies to reduce socioeconomic, water, and climatic vulnerabilities for more than a century. Among the recent initiatives, the Cisterns Program stands out as an attempt to guarantee water and food security for family farmers through the construction of social technologies for water storage, such as…
O papel dos burocratas de nível da rua na implementação de políticas intersetoriais
Durante os anos 2000, foram instituídas políticas de promoção do acesso à água no Semiárido brasileiro, como componentes de uma estratégia mais ampla de redução da pobreza e da insegurança alimentar. Apesar da sua abordagem intersetorial e integrada com as políticas sociais, a multiplicação de arranjos institucionais e de programas com lógicas distintas de implementação tem aumentado seu nível de fragmentação. O presente artigo analisa o processo…
Impacts of the Fomento Program on Family Farmers in the Brazilian Semi-Arid and its relevance to climate change
For some years, Brazil established itself as a leader in strategies of strategies and programs aimed at reducing the social vulnerability of the most vulnerable populations. In this context, the Program for the Promotion of Rural Productive Activities (Fomento Program), created in 2011, had as one of the main objectives to stimulate the generation of work and income, and promote food and nutritional security for rural, indigenous, traditional and…
Nd Water Cisterns
Brazil is the tropical region of the world that heated up the most during 1901-2012. Over the years, in face of the constant shocks related to the drought periods in the Brazilian semiarid region, the governments have leaned on two distinct policy responses -to fight against drought and cope with drought, the latter mainly characterized by the expansion of social technologies related to rainwater harvesting. Among those, the water reservoir calle…
Importância dos programas voltados aos agricultores familiares nos períodos de seca e frente à necessidade de adaptação às mudanças climáticas no Semiárido brasileiro
A região do Semiárido, ao longo dos anos, foi alvo de uma transição de políticas públicas voltadas ao combate à seca para as políticas com base na Convivência com o Semiárido. Com base nesse paradigma, foram desenvolvidas políticas em vários âmbitos de modo a apoiar os agricultores familiares mais vulneráveis. Entretanto, diante das mudanças climáticas previstas para a região, preconiza-se a necessidade de um melhor entendimento das percepções so…
Trabalhar na interface
A coprodução de conhecimento é uma maneira de engajar atores acadêmicos e extra acadêmicos na produção compartilhada de conhecimento. Nesse contexto, este estudo tem o objetivo de debater o potencial do trabalho de fronteira, uma abordagem participativa, para mediar um processo de coprodução de conhecimento entre pesquisadores e gestores públicos municipais. Para estimular as discussões sobre esse processo, a qualidade da água de uma região amazô…
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Trabalhar na interface
A coprodução de conhecimento é uma maneira de engajar atores acadêmicos e extra acadêmicos na produção compartilhada de conhecimento. Nesse contexto, este estudo tem o objetivo de debater o potencial do trabalho de fronteira, uma abordagem participativa, para mediar um processo de coprodução de conhecimento entre pesquisadores e gestores públicos municipais. Para estimular as discussões sobre esse processo, a qualidade da água de uma região amazô…
Impacts of the Fomento Program on Family Farmers in the Brazilian Semi-Arid and its relevance to climate change
For some years, Brazil established itself as a leader in strategies of strategies and programs aimed at reducing the social vulnerability of the most vulnerable populations. In this context, the Program for the Promotion of Rural Productive Activities (Fomento Program), created in 2011, had as one of the main objectives to stimulate the generation of work and income, and promote food and nutritional security for rural, indigenous, traditional and…
Nd Water Cisterns
Brazil is the tropical region of the world that heated up the most during 1901-2012. Over the years, in face of the constant shocks related to the drought periods in the Brazilian semiarid region, the governments have leaned on two distinct policy responses -to fight against drought and cope with drought, the latter mainly characterized by the expansion of social technologies related to rainwater harvesting. Among those, the water reservoir calle…
Importância dos programas voltados aos agricultores familiares nos períodos de seca e frente à necessidade de adaptação às mudanças climáticas no Semiárido brasileiro
A região do Semiárido, ao longo dos anos, foi alvo de uma transição de políticas públicas voltadas ao combate à seca para as políticas com base na Convivência com o Semiárido. Com base nesse paradigma, foram desenvolvidas políticas em vários âmbitos de modo a apoiar os agricultores familiares mais vulneráveis. Entretanto, diante das mudanças climáticas previstas para a região, preconiza-se a necessidade de um melhor entendimento das percepções so…
Role of water infrastructure programs for family farmers in strengthening adaptive capacities to climate change
The semi-arid region of Brazil, marked by low human development indicators, has historically suffered from water scarcity, being the focus of public policies to reduce socioeconomic, water, and climatic vulnerabilities for more than a century. Among the recent initiatives, the Cisterns Program stands out as an attempt to guarantee water and food security for family farmers through the construction of social technologies for water storage, such as…
O papel dos burocratas de nível da rua na implementação de políticas intersetoriais
Durante os anos 2000, foram instituídas políticas de promoção do acesso à água no Semiárido brasileiro, como componentes de uma estratégia mais ampla de redução da pobreza e da insegurança alimentar. Apesar da sua abordagem intersetorial e integrada com as políticas sociais, a multiplicação de arranjos institucionais e de programas com lógicas distintas de implementação tem aumentado seu nível de fragmentação. O presente artigo analisa o processo…
Rainwater Harvesting as a Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change and Building Women's Autonomy in Brazilian Semiarid
Cisterns Program aims to mitigate drought impacts through strengthening the adaptive capacity of vulnerable inhabitants in Brazilian Semiarid (BSA). Cisterns promote the ability of farmers to adapt to climatic stresses in long run. This article discusses the impacts of the Rainwater Harvesting Program (RHP) on the livelihoods of women in BSA. Policy implementation has been assessed from capacity building and social mobilization to the constructio…
Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems
This study applies ‘Social-Ecological Systems (SES)’ concepts with the aim of analysing why and how events happening across spatial, jurisdictional, and temporal scales influence droughts and their impacts in rural communities. To trace the evolution of droughts and their impacts on the livelihood system, we conducted a drought diagnosis in the rural community of Riacho da Cruz in the Banabuiú basin in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. We analys…
From creeping crisis to policy change
This paper aims to understand the national-level policy change that occurred in Brazilian drought management, whereby the policy shifted from reactive crisis management to a drought preparedness approach. We found that a combination of factors supported the policy change, such as the interplay of multiple drought events in different regions of the country, the length and timing of these events, attention paid to the issue, and the role of policy …
Flash Drought Typologies and Societal Impacts
Flash droughts, characterized by rapid onset and intensification, are increasingly occurring as a consequence of climate change and rising temperatures. However, existing hydrometeorological definitions fail to encompass the full range of flash droughts, many of which have distinct local physical attributes. Consequently, these events often go undetected or unforecast in generic global flash drought assessments and are underrepresented in researc…
It's not all about drought
Drought impacts monitoring has been called the missing piece in drought assessment. The potential to improve drought management is high but uncertain due to rare analyses of impacts datasets, predominantly because there are few impacts monitoring programmes to generate the datasets. Drought impacts monitoring is conducted on the ground in much of Brazil by local observers at monthly and municipality scale to support the Brazilian Drought Monitor.…
Geography (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Adaptive capacity (4 works)