Evolution of national climate adaptation agendas in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia: the role of national leadership and international donors
Evolution of national climate adaptation agendas in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia: the role of national leadership and international donors
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10.1007/s10113-020-01693-8
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发表时间：
2020-10-02
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4.2
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Tembo-Nhlema, Dorothy
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作者：
Pardoe, Joanna;Vincent, Katharine;Tembo-Nhlema, Dorothy
在本文中，我们使用归纳法和纵向分析，以探讨政治影响的出现和演变的气候变化适应政策和规划在国家层面上，以及机构内，它是嵌入式的，为三个国家在撒哈拉以南非洲（马拉维，坦桑尼亚和赞比亚）。数据收集涉及2012年至2017年6年期间应用的定量和定性方法。这包括对103名政府工作人员（马拉维20人、坦桑尼亚29人、赞比亚54人）的调查，以及与广泛的利益攸关方进行的242次访谈（马拉维106人、坦桑尼亚86人、赞比亚50人），其中许多人在研究期间多次接受访谈，并对相关政策和方案文件进行了内容分析。虽然这三个国家在2007-2009年左右都提出了气候适应议程，并与多边融资计划相关联，但进展的速度和性质各不相同，直到大约2015年，由于不同的原因，势头放缓。我们发现各国在具体运作方式方面存在差异，但在气候变化适应议程的演变中出现了两个共同因素的作用：国家领导和联合政治优先事项，以及捐助者提供的额外资金的作用。这些影响导致应对气候变化的政策和体制框架发生变化，并导致对适应气候变化的重视发生变化。通过研究思想、力量和资源汇聚的不同方式，并从国家实例的具体配置中学习，我们确定了解决现有行动障碍的机会，从而提出了使其他国家能够更有效地进行适应规划的影响。我们表明，更具社会公正性和包容性的国家气候适应规划需要一种批判性的方法来理解这些权力和政治配置。
In this paper, we use an inductive approach and longitudinal analysis to explore political influences on the emergence and evolution of climate change adaptation policy and planning at national level, as well as the institutions within which it is embedded, for three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia). Data collection involved quantitative and qualitative methods applied over a 6-year period from 2012 to 2017. This included a survey of 103 government staff (20 in Malawi, 29 in Tanzania and 54 in Zambia) and 242 interviews (106 in Malawi, 86 in Tanzania and 50 in Zambia) with a wide range of stakeholders, many of whom were interviewed multiple times over the study period, together with content analysis of relevant policy and programme documents. Whilst the climate adaptation agenda emerged in all three countries around 2007-2009, associated with multilateral funding initiatives, the rate and nature of progress has varied-until roughly 2015 when, for different reasons, momentum slowed. We find differences between the countries in terms of specifics of how they operated, but roles of two factors in common emerge in the evolution of the climate change adaptation agendas: national leadership and allied political priorities, and the role of additional funding provided by donors. These influences lead to changes in the policy and institutional frameworks for addressing climate change, as well as in the emphasis placed on climate change adaptation. By examining the different ways through which ideas, power and resources converge and by learning from the specific configurations in the country examples, we identify opportunities to address existing barriers to action and thus present implications that enable more effective adaptation planning in other countries. We show that more socially just and inclusive national climate adaptation planning requires a critical approach to understanding these configurations of power and politics.