Consolidating Contestation and Conflict through Community-Based Adaptation (CBA)

• 作者: Annelies Zoomers Sebastiaan Soeters
• 来源期刊: 地球科学和环境保护期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: Climate Change ADAPTATION COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTATION EXCLUSION Conflicts RESILIENCE Social Capital Kenya Ghana and Burkina
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（11）
• 页码范围: 174-193
• 页数: 20页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

This article, based on fieldwork in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya, provides an overview of different types of climate change adaptation interventions that are currently being implemented to enhance local community’s adaptive capacity and resilience. We show that CBA interventions, whilst measurably successful from the interventionist perspective, are often structured to cause new scarcities, competing claims and ultimately, various forms and intensities of conflict. We conclude that, instead of targeting “communities” or other groups of “beneficiaries”, the inter-connectedness of multiple (and at times competing) social groups (men and women, the elderly and youth, hunters, loggers, pastoralists and sedentary crop farmers etc.) in relation to the use and distribution of natural resources should be the point of departure for strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity.