Community-based adaptation (CBA): adding conceptual clarity to the approach, and establishing its principles and challenges. (3rd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kirkby, Patrick; Williams, Casey; Huq, Saleemul
• Is Part Of: Climate and development. Volume 10:Number 7(2018)
• Page Start: 577
• Page End: 589
• Publication Date: 2018-10-03
• Subjects: Community-based adaptation -- adaptation -- least developed countries -- participation -- climate policy; Climatic changes -- Periodicals; Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Global temperature changes -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; 363.7387405
• DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2017.1372265
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1756-5529

Abstract

Abstract : Community-based adaptation (CBA) is an approach to strengthening the adaptive capacity of local communities vulnerable to climate change. The CBA approach increasingly features in discussions among policy makers, planners, advocates, and researchers, and has been endorsed and adopted by numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations. However, to date the CBA approach has lacked conceptual clarity, and the term is interpreted and deployed in various and often contradictory ways. This paper seeks to address this deficit by explaining the rationale put forth for CBA by its proponents, outlining its guiding principles, and theorizing some of its key challenges, which often point to opportunities for the approach to evolve.