气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa

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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2020.1863180
	Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa
	Ziervogel G.; Enqvist J.; Metelerkamp L.; van Breda J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1469-3062
起始页码	124
结束页码	132
英文摘要	Calls for transformative adaptation to climate change require attention to the type of capacity building that can support it. Community-level capacity building can help to ensure ownership and legitimacy of longer-term interventions. Given that marginalized communities are highly vulnerable to climate risk, it is important to build their capacity to adapt locally and to integrate their perspectives into higher-level adaptation measures. Current adaptation policy does not pay sufficient attention to this. Using a Cape Town-based project on water governance in low-income urban settlements, this paper explores how a transdisciplinary research project supported capacity building. Our findings suggest that knowledge co-creation at the community level is central to the capacity building that is needed in order to inform transformative adaptation. The collaborative methodology used is also important; we illustrate how a transdisciplinary approach can contribute to transformative adaptation where knowledge is co-produced to empower community-level actors and organizations to assert their perspectives with greater confidence and legitimacy. We argue that if capacity building processes shift from the top-down transferal of existing knowledge to the co-creation of contextual understandings, they have the potential to deliver more transformative adaptation. By considering diverse sources of knowledge and knowledge systems, capacity building can start to confront inequalities and shift dominant power dynamics. Adaptation policy could provide more guidance and support for community-level transdisciplinary processes that can enable this type of transformative adaptation. Key policy insights To address equity and justice issues as well as climate risk, adaptation policy needs to better support transformative adaptation. Community-level capacity building, called for by developing countries, will benefit from more attention to bottom-up approaches as a complement to top-down ones. Community-led research that draws on a diversity of knowledge systems can effectively inform the development of transformative adaptation interventions. Transdisciplinary research methods present a promising pedagogical approach to building transformative adaptation capacity. Adaptation policy for capacity building would benefit from a broader understanding of governance that includes local participation and values bottom-up contributions. A priority for capacity building is getting previously excluded actors a spot at the negotiating table as well as skills to substantiate their arguments. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	adaptation policy; Capacity building; community-level adaptation; learning; transdisciplinary methods; transformative adaptation
来源期刊	CLIMATE POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/183664
作者单位	African Climate Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa; Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa; Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ziervogel G.,Enqvist J.,Metelerkamp L.,et al. Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa[J],2021.
APA	Ziervogel G.,Enqvist J.,Metelerkamp L.,&van Breda J..(2021).Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa.CLIMATE POLICY.
MLA	Ziervogel G.,et al."Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa".CLIMATE POLICY (2021).