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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab59c8
	The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks
	Beauchamp E.; Moskeland A.; Milner-Gulland E.J.; Hirons M.; Ruli B.; Byg A.; Dougill A.J.; Jew E.; Keane A.; Malhi Y.; McNicol I.; Morel A.C.; Whitfield S.; Morris R.J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:12
英文摘要	Climate shocks are predicted to increase in magnitude and frequency as the climate changes, notably impacting poor and vulnerable communities across the Tropics. The urgency to better understand and improve communities' resilience is reflected in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the multiplication of adaptation research and action programs. In turn, the need for collecting and communicating evidence on the climate resilience of communities has increasingly drawn questions concerning how to assess resilience. While empirical case studies are often used to delve into the context-specific nature of resilience, synthesizing results is essential to produce generalizable findings at the scale at which policies are designed. Yet datasets, methods and modalities that enable cross-case analyses that draw from individual local studies are still rare in climate resilience literature. We use empirical case studies on the impacts of El Nio on smallholder households from five countries to test the application of quantitative data aggregation for policy recommendation. We standardized data into an aggregated dataset to explore how key demographic factors affected the impact of climate shocks, modeled as crop loss. We find that while cross-study results partially align with the findings from the individual projects and with theory, several challenges associated with quantitative aggregation remain when examining complex, contextual and multi-dimensional concepts such as resilience. We conclude that future exercises synthesizing cross-site empirical evidence in climate resilience could accelerate research to policy impact by using mixed methods, focusing on specific landscapes or regional scales, and facilitating research through the use of shared frameworks and learning exercises. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity; Climate resilience; Cross-case analysis; El ninõ; Food security; Smallholder agricultural systems
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate change; Food supply; Tropics; Adaptive capacity; Agricultural system; Case analysis; Climate resilience; Food security; Agriculture; action plan; adaptive management; climate change; climate effect; climate prediction; demography; design; El Nino-Southern Oscillation; empirical analysis; environmental policy; farming system; food security; international agreement; nature-society relations; quantitative analysis; smallholder; France; Ile de France; Paris; Ville de Paris
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154246
作者单位	Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; International Institute for Environment and Development, London, United Kingdom; Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; New Guinea Binatang Research Centre, Papua New Guinea; James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom; School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Beauchamp E.,Moskeland A.,Milner-Gulland E.J.,et al. The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks[J],2019,14(12).
APA	Beauchamp E..,Moskeland A..,Milner-Gulland E.J..,Hirons M..,Ruli B..,...&Morris R.J..(2019).The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks.Environmental Research Letters,14(12).
MLA	Beauchamp E.,et al."The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks".Environmental Research Letters 14.12(2019).