The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective

Tina Peissker

ISBN 10: 3954890496 / ISBN 13: 9783954890491

Published by Anchor Academic Publishing, 2013

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The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective | Tina Peissker | Taschenbuch | 112 S. | Englisch | 2013 | Anchor Academic Publishing | EAN 9783954890491 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Dryas Verlag, ein Imprint der Bedey und Thoms Media GmbH, Hermannstal 119k, 22119 Hamburg, kontakt[at]dryas[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective
• Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3954890496
• ISBN 13: 9783954890491
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 155H x 9D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 191 grams
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The prospect of the adverse effects that global climate change will have on human societies, opened up a discourse about the way adaptation should be managed. In order to finance adaptation measures in the most severe affected countries, the parties of the Kyoto Protocol established the Adaptation Fund in 2007. In view of the limited resources that are available for adaptation, scales for the prioritization of countries that are based on their suspected vulnerability, have been developed in literature. But so far, indicators of vulnerability reflect only the general indicators of human development, and therefore, fail to capture the complex structures of vulnerability. In order to capture the mentioned complexity in a more satisfactory way, this book highlights the theory of collective learning. The collective learning approach assumes that vulnerability can be significantly decreased when governance systems adapt to external changes through collective learning processes. This study connects to this notion, and therefore, it assesses the influence of collective learning processes on the vulnerability of the Bangladeshi and Pakistani society towards flood hazards. This determinant of vulnerability is used to capture the matter's complexity.