A5049190643- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- International Development and Aid
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- African history and culture studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
Clark University
2015-2024
Stockholm Environment Institute
2024
University of South Carolina
2005-2015
Syracuse University
2000
Botsford Hospital
1992
Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
1992
Abstract The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, implementer efforts to understand act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated a construction as binary (men versus women). This approach runs contrary current understandings identity the wider social science literature, which treats categorization that takes...
Abstract The DPSIR framework was devised in the late 1990s as a tool for reporting and analysis of environmental problems, ranging scale from global systems to localized watersheds. Since then, international organizations have begun apply this evaluation sustainable development initiatives, better understand overcome barriers sustainability. While may seem logical application an integrated assessment tool, use will likely perpetuate least satisfactory outcomes development. cannot address...
Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic international development research. The tendency rely analyses of the sex-disaggregated categories 'men' 'women' as sole or principal divisions explaining abilities different people within group adapt change, illustrates this problem. This framing persists spite established bodies knowledge that show how roles...
Abstract Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa's agricultural sector manage risks variability change. Despite this, a lack evidence prevents realistic analysis whether such delivering on their potential. This paper reviews 66 studies that have evaluated outcomes and/or impacts WCS in Africa, highlighting areas received relatively more attention as well persistent gaps. While evaluation is straightforward, estimates number people who access use...
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers' adaptation needs at scale challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede development effective in Africa, our discussion strategies scaling up practices meet needs, opportunities address long-standing obstacles, organized around: (a) meeting information needs; (b) supporting access, understanding use; (c)...
Abstract Livelihoods approaches emerged from a broad range of efforts to understand how people live in particular places. They have since cohered into often instrumentally applied frameworks that rest on the broadly held assumption livelihoods are principally about management one's material circumstances. This limits explanatory power by shifting motivations for decisions outside analytic frame. article extends recover broader lens and outcomes conceptualising as forms intimate government,...
The design of effective climate services requires the identification a problem that might be addressed through provision weather and information, delivery actionable information to set appropriate users. utility for given user is shaped not only by exposure particular weather, climate, market shocks stresses, but also sensitivity user’s livelihoods stresses whether or their adaptive capacity includes ability use such information. Therefore, are very place-, time-, vulnerability-specific,...
Abstract While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, credible end users. This particularly true of intended address needs women in contexts. The design gender-sensitive hampered by oversimplified framings as a group both adaptation literatures. paper demonstrates even at village level, different weather needs, differing...
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability implications overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for rapid managed fossil fuel phase-out, (3) challenges scaling carbon dioxide removal, (4) uncertainties regarding future contribution sinks, (5) intertwinedness crises biodiversity loss change, (6) compound events, (7) mountain...
This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver migration, central concern areas inquiry ranging from Human Dimensions Global Change research to population geography and development studies. Although much literature on environment in migration reflects general awareness that factors are but one suite influences shaping decisionmaking, framework within which place social, economic, issues with regard particular decisions is absent this literature. Drawing upon recent...
The field of climate services for development ( CSD ) is growing rapidly, presented by donors and implementers as an opportunity to address the needs global poor, whether informing agricultural decisionmaking in rural communities, facilitating disaster preparedness or promoting public health. To realise this potential, however, projects must understand information their intended users. This raises a critical epistemological challenge : how can we know who vulnerable impacts variability...
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives those involved and has been transformative societies economies globally. Yet models sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate movement populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays role as driver unsustainability part economic globalisation, yet simultaneously phenomenon potential force for sustainable development. We propose criteria by which opportunity development: increasing...