Article title: Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases
Article title: Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases
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文章标题：为什么撒哈拉以南非洲的社会公正气候变化适应如此具有挑战性？
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2018
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通讯作者：
V. Menon
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Tain Luquez;P. Gaur;Ivy M Kosater;Matti Lam;Dylan I. Lee;J. Mares;Fahad Paryani;A. Yadav;V. Menon
为了加强对气候变化适应进程的了解，并促进可持续适应战略的规划和执行，需要更深入地考虑阻碍适应的因素。因此，气候变化适应的障碍越来越多地被报道。但是，尽管取得了这一进展，但对阻碍发展中国家适应的障碍的了解仍然有限，特别是在脆弱性和适应能力低的根本原因方面。为了进一步提高对适应障碍的了解，找出最新知识中的差距，我们对撒哈拉以南非洲的经验文献进行了综合，重点是脆弱的、依赖自然资源的社区和生计。我们的回顾表明：1)揭示适应障碍的地方研究多种多样，尽管人们倾向于对小农户进行研究；2)许多研究确定了适应方面的若干障碍，但对它们的相互作用及其综合影响的了解仍然很少；3)已发现的大多数障碍广泛涉及农业生产和农村发展面临的生物物理、知识和财政限制。更隐蔽和更少被承认的政治、社会和心理障碍很少被提及，除非在专门开始调查这些障碍的研究中发现。我们通过强调理解上的差距和建议未来的研究方向来结束我们的审查，重点是社会正义问题。我们认为，对障碍的研究需要开始追问这些障碍为什么会出现，它们如何共同作用来塑造适应过程，它们对谁影响最大，以及需要什么来克服它们。
To enhance understanding of the process of climate change adaptation and to facilitate the planning and implementation of sustainable adaptation strategies deeper consideration of the factors that impede adaptation is required. Barriers to climate change adaptation are, consequently, being increasingly reported. But, despite this progress, knowledge of barriers that hamper adaptation in developing countries remains limited, especially in relation to underlying causes of vulnerability and low adaptive capacity. To further improve understanding of barriers to adaptation and identify gaps in the state-of-the-art knowledge, we undertook a synthesis of empirical literature from sub-Saharan Africa focusing on vulnerable, natural resource dependent communities and livelihoods. Our review illustrates that: 1) local level studies that reveal barriers to adaptation are diverse, although there is a propensity for studies on small-holder farmers; 2) many of the studies identify several barriers to adaptation, but appreciation of their interactions and compounded impacts remains scarce; and 3) most of the barriers uncovered relate broadly to biophysical, knowledge and financial constraints on agricultural production and rural development. More hidden and under-acknowledged political, social and psychological barriers are rarely mentioned, unless captured in studies that specifically set out to investigate these. We finish our review by highlighting gaps in understanding and by suggesting future research directions, focussing on issues of social justice. We argue that research on barriers needs to start asking why these barriers emerge, how they work together to shape adaptation processes, who they affect most, and what is needed to overcome them.
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4.3
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K. Brown
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K. Brown