On my first day as a postdoctoral researcher on the ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions) project, I was hurled into a week-long ASSAR Annual Meeting held at IIHS, Bangalore. A wonderful mix between workshop, project meeting, networking event and academic brainstorming session, the week was the best possible induction I could get intoContinueContinue reading “ASSAR Annual Meeting: Notes on collaborative, interdisciplinary research”
Tag Archives: Adaptation
Link Pack #7: ICTs for climate change adaptation (among other things)
Paper: Linking ICTs and Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework for e-Resilience and e-Adaptation by Ospina and Heeks (2010) is a fascinating read. The authors put forth a framework to explore how ICTs can enhance individual adaptive capacities and contribute to the overall adaptation process. The paper also introduced me to \’ICT4CCA\’ which stands forContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #7: ICTs for climate change adaptation (among other things)”
Shifting the discourse from adaptation to transformational adaptation
Shallow wells provide protective irrigation during in-season dry spells.But these coping strategies may not work in an agricultural system thatis intensifying towards water-intensive cash crops. There is growing concern that climate change adaptation may have \’somehow lost its edge…lost its spunk and it became just another term for development\’. My own research from Pratapgarh, a tribal-dominatedContinueContinue reading “Shifting the discourse from adaptation to transformational adaptation”
Link Pack #6: Rural landscapes, M&E for climate change adaptation
Video: Stumbled upon an interesting repository of images from the British Empire at Colonial Film. Each video is accompanied by an analysis which is quite useful. Watching one 1943 video In Rural Maharashtra, I was struck by how effectively the role of women in an agricultural household was portrayed. Another interesting insight was corn being calledContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #6: Rural landscapes, M&E for climate change adaptation”
Link Pack #4: Development economics, constructions of climate change
Book: Zed books, one of my favourite publishers, recently reissued several pivotal books under their Critique Influence Change Series. I just finished the incredibly provocative and engrossing \’Reclaiming Development\’ by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel which makes a compelling case against neoliberal hegemony and maps out alternative economic instruments that can usher in stable, sustainable, and equitableContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #4: Development economics, constructions of climate change”
Link Pack #3: Social learning, climate change, new book on State regulation
Sustainable development through social learning: A new paper in Nature Climate Change posits that wicked problems like climate change can greatly benefit from social learning approaches because they foster iterative, collaborative and participatory learning. An open access version of the paper is here.Ed Carr\’s blog: I have read several of Carr\’s papers and was really gladContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #3: Social learning, climate change, new book on State regulation”
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