Lars Otto Nae
Biographic Data
| ID | 187952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Otto Nae |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars Otto |
| FAMILY NAME | Nae |
| SIGNATURE | NAE L O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6672-1394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 435 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate Resilience in Conflict-Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, highlighting that while social assistance offers a protective function, it falls short of reducing long-term vulnerabilities, especially in settings characterised by multidimensional and enduring stressors a…
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change: Contestations in uncertain ‘marginal’ environments
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together a range of empirically grounded studies that add to – and challenge – contemporary debates on climate and environmental justice. Despite a growing focus on justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, we argue that there are still ‘blind spots’ in mainstream debates that warrant increased attention. In this brief introduction, we point to three in particular: first, a persistent failure to…
Climate change and the operation of power: Intersectionality, Dispossession, and Knowledge Politics in Pastoral Communities
Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricultural commercialization serves to reduce poverty, but less to the commercialization pathways that lead towards or away from that outcome. There are, likewise, many studies that project hugely adverse…
Introduction: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together a range of empirically grounded studies that add to – and challenge – contemporary debates on climate and environmental justice. Despite a growing focus on justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, we argue that there are still ‘blind spots’ in mainstream debates that warrant increased attention. In this brief introduction, we point to three in particular: first, a persistent failure to…
Glossary
This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 53.4: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront material and social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways of conceptualizing society, climate and environment and yet current research struggles to break free of established…
Triple wins' or 'triple faults'? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
This paper analyses contrasting discourses of 'climate-smart agriculture' (CSA) for their implications on control over and access to changing resources in agriculture. One of the principal areas of contestation around CSA relates to equity, including who wins and who loses, who is able to participate, and whose knowledge and perspectives count in the process. Yet to date, the equity implications of CSA remain an under-researched area. We apply an…
Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
Climate Change Adaptation Through Humanitarian Aid? Promises, Perils and Potentials of the ‘New Humanitarianism’
A major reform of the humanitarian sector is currently under way, focusing increasingly on the prevention of crises rather than on providing relief once crises have occurred. This article examines whether and how this new humanitarian approach can also improve people’s ability to adapt to climate change. We identify three approaches central to this ‘new humanitarianism’, namely resilience, disaster risk reduction and early warning systems, and di…
The Power of ‘Know-Who’: Adaptation to Climate Change in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape in Isiolo, Kenya
This article examines adaptation to climate change in view of changing humanitarian approaches in Isiolo County, Kenya. While humanitarian actors are increasingly integrating climate change in their international and national-level strategies, we know less about how this plays out at sub-national levels, which is key to tracking whether and how short-term assistance can support long-term adaptation. The article suggests that increasing attention …
Glossary: Courting Catastrophe: Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate
This is the glossary of IDS Bulletin 48.4, 'Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate'
Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique
The role of local knowledge in adaptation to climate change
Evidence from recent research suggests that local knowledge may contribute to adaptation to climate change in a number of ways. At the same time, there are concerns over its relevance for future adaptation amidst other challenges. This article aims to shed light on some of the key potentials and challenges for the application of local knowledge for adaptation, drawing on recent studies as well as findings from semi‐arid Tanzania. This article ill…
Images, Reflections, Mirrors’: Student Perspectives on the Financial Crisis and Challenges for Development
This site explored student perspectives on development in view of the current financial crisis. The site worked with the 2009/10 cohort of IDS students, focusing on their motivations for entering the development sector, their experience with the financial crisis, as well as their views on potential spaces for change. The site brought out the paradox of, on the one hand, the significant impacts of the financial crisis, and on the other, the appare…
Bridging Research and Policy Processes for Climate Change Adaptation
This article addresses the link between research on adaptation to climate change and the related policy environment in which it operates. Drawing on recent case studies under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, we show how unpacking of policy processes through analysis of narratives, actors and politics can help shed light on important policy challenges for adaptation. The case studies reveal competing views on adaptation pr…
Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance
Data and processes linking vulnerability assessment to adaptation decision-making on climate change in Norway
Questioning Complacency: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in Norway
Most European assessments of climate change impacts have been carried out on sectors and ecosystems, providing a narrow understanding of what climate change really means for society. Furthermore, the main focus has been on technological adaptations, with less attention paid to the process of climate change adaptation. In this article, we present and analyze findings from recent studies on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation in N…
Institutional adaptation to climate change: Flood responses at the municipal level in Norway
Financial Crisis and State–NGO Relations: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia, 1998–2000
This article discusses the consequences of the 1997–1999 “Asian–Brazil–Russia” financial crisis on environmental policies and state–nongovernmental organization (NGO) relations in Brazilian Amazonia. While the crisis led to severe cuts in national budgets, active NGOs—local and international—as well as new forest management solutions implemented by coalitions of NGOs and public actors ameliorated the impacts of the financial crisis and helped imp…
Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront material and social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways of conceptualizing society, climate and environment and yet current research struggles to break free of established…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Institutional adaptation to climate change: Flood responses at the municipal level in Norway
Triple wins' or 'triple faults'? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
This paper analyses contrasting discourses of 'climate-smart agriculture' (CSA) for their implications on control over and access to changing resources in agriculture. One of the principal areas of contestation around CSA relates to equity, including who wins and who loses, who is able to participate, and whose knowledge and perspectives count in the process. Yet to date, the equity implications of CSA remain an under-researched area. We apply an…
The role of local knowledge in adaptation to climate change
Evidence from recent research suggests that local knowledge may contribute to adaptation to climate change in a number of ways. At the same time, there are concerns over its relevance for future adaptation amidst other challenges. This article aims to shed light on some of the key potentials and challenges for the application of local knowledge for adaptation, drawing on recent studies as well as findings from semi‐arid Tanzania. This article ill…
Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Questioning Complacency: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in Norway
Most European assessments of climate change impacts have been carried out on sectors and ecosystems, providing a narrow understanding of what climate change really means for society. Furthermore, the main focus has been on technological adaptations, with less attention paid to the process of climate change adaptation. In this article, we present and analyze findings from recent studies on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation in N…
Data and processes linking vulnerability assessment to adaptation decision-making on climate change in Norway
Climate change and the operation of power: Intersectionality, Dispossession, and Knowledge Politics in Pastoral Communities
Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
The Power of ‘Know-Who’: Adaptation to Climate Change in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape in Isiolo, Kenya
This article examines adaptation to climate change in view of changing humanitarian approaches in Isiolo County, Kenya. While humanitarian actors are increasingly integrating climate change in their international and national-level strategies, we know less about how this plays out at sub-national levels, which is key to tracking whether and how short-term assistance can support long-term adaptation. The article suggests that increasing attention …
Bridging Research and Policy Processes for Climate Change Adaptation
This article addresses the link between research on adaptation to climate change and the related policy environment in which it operates. Drawing on recent case studies under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, we show how unpacking of policy processes through analysis of narratives, actors and politics can help shed light on important policy challenges for adaptation. The case studies reveal competing views on adaptation pr…
Financial Crisis and State–NGO Relations: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia, 1998–2000
This article discusses the consequences of the 1997–1999 “Asian–Brazil–Russia” financial crisis on environmental policies and state–nongovernmental organization (NGO) relations in Brazilian Amazonia. While the crisis led to severe cuts in national budgets, active NGOs—local and international—as well as new forest management solutions implemented by coalitions of NGOs and public actors ameliorated the impacts of the financial crisis and helped imp…
In place of the forest: Environmental and socioeconomic transformation in borneo and the eastern Malay peninsula
Institutional adaptation to climate change: Flood responses at the municipal level in Norway
Financial Crisis and State–NGO Relations: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia, 1998–2000
This article discusses the consequences of the 1997–1999 “Asian–Brazil–Russia” financial crisis on environmental policies and state–nongovernmental organization (NGO) relations in Brazilian Amazonia. While the crisis led to severe cuts in national budgets, active NGOs—local and international—as well as new forest management solutions implemented by coalitions of NGOs and public actors ameliorated the impacts of the financial crisis and helped imp…
Data and processes linking vulnerability assessment to adaptation decision-making on climate change in Norway
Questioning Complacency: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in Norway
Most European assessments of climate change impacts have been carried out on sectors and ecosystems, providing a narrow understanding of what climate change really means for society. Furthermore, the main focus has been on technological adaptations, with less attention paid to the process of climate change adaptation. In this article, we present and analyze findings from recent studies on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation in N…
Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance
Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
Images, Reflections, Mirrors’: Student Perspectives on the Financial Crisis and Challenges for Development
This site explored student perspectives on development in view of the current financial crisis. The site worked with the 2009/10 cohort of IDS students, focusing on their motivations for entering the development sector, their experience with the financial crisis, as well as their views on potential spaces for change. The site brought out the paradox of, on the one hand, the significant impacts of the financial crisis, and on the other, the appare…
Bridging Research and Policy Processes for Climate Change Adaptation
This article addresses the link between research on adaptation to climate change and the related policy environment in which it operates. Drawing on recent case studies under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, we show how unpacking of policy processes through analysis of narratives, actors and politics can help shed light on important policy challenges for adaptation. The case studies reveal competing views on adaptation pr…
The role of local knowledge in adaptation to climate change
Evidence from recent research suggests that local knowledge may contribute to adaptation to climate change in a number of ways. At the same time, there are concerns over its relevance for future adaptation amidst other challenges. This article aims to shed light on some of the key potentials and challenges for the application of local knowledge for adaptation, drawing on recent studies as well as findings from semi‐arid Tanzania. This article ill…
Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique
Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currentlygenerating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing…
Climate Change Adaptation Through Humanitarian Aid? Promises, Perils and Potentials of the ‘New Humanitarianism’
A major reform of the humanitarian sector is currently under way, focusing increasingly on the prevention of crises rather than on providing relief once crises have occurred. This article examines whether and how this new humanitarian approach can also improve people’s ability to adapt to climate change. We identify three approaches central to this ‘new humanitarianism’, namely resilience, disaster risk reduction and early warning systems, and di…
The Power of ‘Know-Who’: Adaptation to Climate Change in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape in Isiolo, Kenya
This article examines adaptation to climate change in view of changing humanitarian approaches in Isiolo County, Kenya. While humanitarian actors are increasingly integrating climate change in their international and national-level strategies, we know less about how this plays out at sub-national levels, which is key to tracking whether and how short-term assistance can support long-term adaptation. The article suggests that increasing attention …
Glossary: Courting Catastrophe: Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate
This is the glossary of IDS Bulletin 48.4, 'Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate'
Triple wins' or 'triple faults'? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
This paper analyses contrasting discourses of 'climate-smart agriculture' (CSA) for their implications on control over and access to changing resources in agriculture. One of the principal areas of contestation around CSA relates to equity, including who wins and who loses, who is able to participate, and whose knowledge and perspectives count in the process. Yet to date, the equity implications of CSA remain an under-researched area. We apply an…
Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront material and social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways of conceptualizing society, climate and environment and yet current research struggles to break free of established…
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Introduction: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together a range of empirically grounded studies that add to – and challenge – contemporary debates on climate and environmental justice. Despite a growing focus on justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, we argue that there are still ‘blind spots’ in mainstream debates that warrant increased attention. In this brief introduction, we point to three in particular: first, a persistent failure to…
Glossary
This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 53.4: Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricultural commercialization serves to reduce poverty, but less to the commercialization pathways that lead towards or away from that outcome. There are, likewise, many studies that project hugely adverse…
Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate Resilience in Conflict-Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, highlighting that while social assistance offers a protective function, it falls short of reducing long-term vulnerabilities, especially in settings characterised by multidimensional and enduring stressors a…
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change: Contestations in uncertain ‘marginal’ environments
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together a range of empirically grounded studies that add to – and challenge – contemporary debates on climate and environmental justice. Despite a growing focus on justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, we argue that there are still ‘blind spots’ in mainstream debates that warrant increased attention. In this brief introduction, we point to three in particular: first, a persistent failure to…
Political science (20 works) · Climate change (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 works)