Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation.
Abstract
This article analyses the role of social protection programmes in contributing to people's resilience to climate risks. Drawing from desk-based and empirical studies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, it finds that social transfers make a strong contribution to the capacity of individuals and households to absorb the negative impacts of climate-related shocks and stresses. They do so through the provision of reliable, national social safety net systems-even when these are not specifically designed to address climate risks. Social protection can also increase the anticipatory capacity of national disaster response systems through scalability mechanisms, or pre-emptively through linkages to early action and early warning mechanisms. Critical knowledge gaps remain in terms of programmes' contributions to the adaptive capacity required for long-term resilience. The findings offer insights beyond social protection on the importance of robust, national administrative systems as a key foundation to support people's resilience to climate risks.Citation
Ulrichs, M., Slater, R. and Costella, C. (2019) Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation, Disasters, 43 (S3), pp. S368-S387.Publisher
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DisastersPubMed ID
30945765Additional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12339Type
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© 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12339ISSN
0361-3666ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/disa.12339
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