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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.12.005
	A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity
	Ensor J.E.; Park S.E.; Hoddy E.T.; Ratner B.D.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	31
英文摘要	Whilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to recognise or adequately challenge these contexts where they constrain capacity to adapt. To address this failing, we consider how a rights-based approach broadens understanding of adaptive capacity while directing attention towards causes of exclusion and marginalisation. Drawing on human rights principles and lessons from rights-based practice, we develop a novel analytical tool for use with communities that considers adaptive capacity through examination of equality, transparency, accountability and empowerment. We apply this to the illustrative case of aquatic agricultural systems in Timor-Leste. This approach yields a qualitative analysis that unpacks the formal and informal institutions and actors that structure opportunities and barriers to adaptive actions. The rights framing exposes the processes of marginalisation and exclusion that lead to differentiation in adaptive capacity, but at the same time helps identify concrete actions that can be taken as part of a rights-based approach to development support for adaptive capacity. The tool and empirical illustration support an emerging body of thought that adaptive capacity requires development actors to engage not only with the technical challenges of responding to climate change, but also with the social and political context that determines the distribution of costs and benefits. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Human rights; Institutions; Rights-based approaches; Timor-Leste
学科领域	climate change; cost-benefit analysis; decision making; farming system; human rights; institutional development; local adaptation; marginalization; Lesser Sunda Islands; Sunda Isles; Timor; Timor-Leste
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; cost-benefit analysis; decision making; farming system; human rights; institutional development; local adaptation; marginalization; Lesser Sunda Islands; Sunda Isles; Timor; Timor-Leste
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117528
作者单位	Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, Grimston House, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom; WorldFish, Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, Bayan Lepas, Penang, 11960, Malaysia; Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, Research Centre for Social Sciences, 6 Innovation Close, York, YO10 5ZF, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ensor J.E.,Park S.E.,Hoddy E.T.,et al. A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity[J],2015,31.
APA	Ensor J.E.,Park S.E.,Hoddy E.T.,&Ratner B.D..(2015).A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity.Global Environmental Change,31.
MLA	Ensor J.E.,et al."A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity".Global Environmental Change 31(2015).