Political economy, poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation

• DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1282816
• Publication Date: 2017-02-13T14:49:00Z
• Authors: Benjamin K. Sovacool; May Tan-Mullins; David Ockwell; Peter Newell
• Keywords: VULNERABILITY; AFRICA; vulnerability; 1. No poverty; GOVERNANCE; POLICY; 01 natural sciences; adaptive capacity; ENERGY; climate change; Political economy; SOCIAL-CHANGE; 13. Climate action; 11. Sustainability; TECHNOLOGY; political ecology; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; resilience; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Climate change adaptation refers to altering infrastructure, institutions or ecosystems respond the impacts of climate change. Least developed countries often lack requisite capacity implement projects. The Global Environment Facility's Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a scheme where industrialised have disbursed $934.5 million in voluntary contributions support 213 projects across 51 least countries. But how effective are its efforts—and what sort challenges arisen as it implements projects? To provide some answers, this article documents presence four "political economy" attributes projects—processes we termed enclosure, exclusion, encroachment and entrenchment—cutting economic, political, ecological social dimensions. Based on extensive field research, find processes at work simultaneously our case studies five LDCF being implemented Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Maldives Vanuatu. concludes with discussion broader implications political economy for analysts, program managers researchers large. In sum, politics must be taken into account so that can maximise their efficacy avoid marginalising those most vulnerable