The limits of poverty reduction in support of climate change adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald R Nelson (0000-0002-7878-2853, University of Georgia, corresponding author), Maria Carmen Lemos (0000-0001-6686-730X, Michigan Department of Natural Resources), Hallie Eakin (0000-0001-8253-1320, Arizona State University), Yun-Jia Lo (Michigan Department of Natural Resources) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 094011-094011 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094011 |
| OpenAlex | W2508064978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 26 |
The relationship between poverty and climate change vulnerability is complex and though not commensurate, the distinctions between the two are often blurred. There is widespread recognition of the need to better understand poverty-vulnerability dynamics in order to improve risk management and poverty reduction investments. This is challenging due to the latent nature of adaptive capacities, frequent lack of baseline data, and the need for high-resolution studies. Here we respond to these challenges by analyzing household-level data in Northeast Brazil to compare drought events 14 years apart. In the period between droughts, the government implemented an aggressive anti-poverty program that includes financial and human capital investments. Poverty declined significantly, but the expected reduction in vulnerability did not occur, in part because the households were not investing in risk management strategies. Our findings complement other research that shows that households make rational decisions that may not correspond with policymaker expectations. We emphasize the need for complementary investments to help channel increased household wealth into risk reduction, and to ensure that the public sector itself continues to prioritize the public functions of risk management, especially in areas where the social cost of climatic risk is high
Adaptive capacity · Business · Chronic poverty · Climate change · Climate risk · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Human capital · Natural resource economics · Order (exchange · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Public economics · Risk management · Vulnerability (computing · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Finance
A critical review on measurement tools of urban household and community resilience to disasters and environmental shocks and stressors among low- and middle-income countries
Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation
Climate and Culture
Climate and Culture
Generic and specific facets of vulnerability for analysing trade‐offs and synergies in natural resource management
Politics of drought under Bolsa Família program in Northeast Brazil
A nonparametric approach to understanding poverty in the Philippines
Household Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change in West China
Integrating livelihoods approaches with research on development and climate change adaptation
Climate change and rural–urban migration in the Brazilian Northeast region
Household Livelihood Differentiation and Vulnerability to Climate Hazards in Rural China
Construction of the Scale-Specific Resilience Index to Facilitate Multiscale Decision Making in Disaster Management
Policy making under scarcity
Adaptation to Environmental Change
Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures
Climate Change
Climate change and poverty
Poor Economics
Indicators for social and economic coping capacity—moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity
Insights into the composition of household vulnerability from multicriteria decision analysis
Differentiating capacities as a means to sustainable climate change adaptation
Linking development to climate adaptation
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Public Policy, Markets and Household Coping Strategies in Bangladesh
Capitals and Capabilities
Fractal poverty traps
Famine and household coping strategies
Wealth, risk and activity choice
Adaptive capacity and its assessment
Effects of Educational Attainment on Climate Risk Vulnerability
Praying for Drought
| Citations per year | 1.44 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |