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Evaluating local capacity for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction : the case of Pulilan Bulacan, Philippines Brown, Christa Louise
Abstract
Climate change is often discussed as something that will happen in the future. However, in many places around the world such as the Philippines, extreme weather events and changing weather patterns that may be attributed to climate change are already occurring and the destructive impacts are very real for communities that are exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards. Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) are now commonly viewed as interrelated policy areas, linked together through a shared focus on weather and climate, and with many overlapping objectives. Both complex issues in their own right and rife with uncertainty, CCA and DRR create new challenges for planning, policy formulation, decision making, and implementation. In the Philippines, authority has been delegated to Local Government Units (LGUs) – provinces, cities and municipalities, and barangays – for the implementation and maintenance of both climate change and disaster risk reduction programs. It is therefore essential to ensure that LGUs tasked with planning for climate change adaptation and associated hazard mitigation possess the capacity required to do so. This project utilizes an asset-based approach to evaluate the local capacity for CCA and DRR of one LGU within the Angat Watershed, the Municipality of Pulilan. Drawing from Appreciative Inquiry – an action research methodology that not only allows for better understanding and appreciation of current capacity, but can also provide for the possibility of innovative transformation to occur within an organization – it focuses on the existing strengths and past successes of the Municipality in order to assess existing adaptive capacity. Adaptive capacity is the ability of a system or community to cope with, prepare for, avoid, or recover from the exposure to the effects of climate change. High adaptive capacity reduces the vulnerability of a community by serving as a counterweight to the community’s exposure and sensitivity to climate change impacts and associated hazards.
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Evaluating local capacity for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction : the case of Pulilan Bulacan, Philippines
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2014-10
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Climate change is often discussed as something that will happen in the future. However, in many places around the world such as the Philippines, extreme weather events and changing weather patterns that may be attributed to climate change are already occurring and the destructive impacts are very real for communities that are exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards. Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) are now commonly viewed as interrelated policy areas, linked together through a shared focus on weather and climate, and with many overlapping objectives. Both complex issues in their own right and rife with uncertainty, CCA and DRR create new challenges for planning, policy formulation, decision making, and implementation. In the Philippines, authority has been delegated to Local Government Units (LGUs) – provinces, cities and municipalities, and barangays – for the implementation and maintenance of both climate change and disaster risk reduction programs. It is therefore essential to ensure that LGUs tasked with planning for climate change adaptation and associated hazard mitigation possess the capacity required to do so.
This project utilizes an asset-based approach to evaluate the local capacity for CCA and DRR of one LGU within the Angat Watershed, the Municipality of Pulilan. Drawing from Appreciative Inquiry – an action research methodology that not only allows for better understanding and appreciation of current capacity, but can also provide for the possibility of innovative transformation to occur within an organization – it focuses on the existing strengths and past successes of the Municipality in order to assess existing adaptive capacity. Adaptive capacity is the ability of a system or community to cope with, prepare for, avoid, or recover from the exposure to the effects of climate change. High adaptive capacity reduces the vulnerability of a community by serving as a counterweight to the community’s exposure and sensitivity to climate change impacts and associated hazards.
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eng
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2015-03-02
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
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10.14288/1.0075856
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Unreviewed
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Graduate
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