Adaptation learning from case studies for adaptation policies and sustainable development Habiba Git

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Adaptation learning from case studies for
adaptation policies and sustainable
developmentHabiba GitayWorld Resources
Institutehgitay_at_wri.org
Climate Energy and Pollution ProgramWorld
Resources Institute http//www.wri.org
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What I want to cover.
Human activities
Multiple pressures
Responses
Impacts Ecosystems ecosystem services human
well-being
Natural and human capital
Use this approach to for case studies
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Human activities Population/demographic Consumptio
n/production Technological changes
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
Land degradation
Changes in biodiversity
Water degradation
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Linkages.
Between Climate change Land degradation water
degradation and loss in biodiversity
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
Human well-being Environment sustainability
Land degradation
Changes in biodiversity
Water degradation
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Ecosystem Services The benefits people obtain
from ecosystems

• Regulating
• Benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem
  processes
• climate regulation
• disease control
• flood control
• detoxification

• Provisioning
• Goods produced or provided by ecosystems
• food
• fresh water
• fuel wood
• fiber
• biochemicals
• genetic resources

• Cultural
• Non-material benefits obtained from ecosystems
• spiritual
• recreational
• aesthetic
• inspirational
• educational
• communal
• symbolic

• Supporting
• Services that maintain the conditions for life on
  earth.
• Soil formation
• Nutrient cycling
• Pollination

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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
Human well-being Environment sustainability
Land degradation
Changes in biodiversity
Water degradation
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Responses to reverse trends and meet sust dev
goals
Responses
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Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
Human well-being Environmental sustainability
Land degradation
Changes in biodiversity
Water degradation
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Economic
Legal institutional
Social behavioural
Science tech transfer
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Response options for developing policies

• Economic
• Legal and institutional
• Social and Behavioural
• Science technology technology transfer
• All of these can be part of adaptation

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What is our approach..

• Multiple stages
• Initial stage a set of case studies focused on
  water and agriculture in specific landscapes
• Ask a series of questions to analyse what is
  happening on the ground before going into future
  planned adaptation (network..)

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Our approach.a series of questions

• What is the status of the ecosystems ecosystem
  services and human well-being
• What are the multiple pressures that affect these
  landscapes and human societies
• How do individuals/households formal and
  informal institutions respond to these pressures
  including climatic extremes
• What are the projected changes (scenarios..)
• Can the present responses cope with future
  changes Adaptation short-term medium and
  long-term

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Our approach.scenario and their uses

• Scenario development
• Aspiration of people at local level
• Sustainable development plans at
  state/regional/national level
• projections of how pressures (LULCC population
  consumption patterns) are changing Climate
  change projections

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Our approach future stages

• Awareness raising
• Information generation and dissemination
• planning and decision-making
• private sector
• Tools and methods (maybe)
• Resources

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So in conclusion

• Work in specific landscapes/watersheds
• Pilots learning by doing understand present
• Inclusion of multiple pressures
• Climate change exacerbating them may be
  dominant in future

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In conclusion

• Consider ecosystem services and tradeoffs between
  them in space and time
• Consider developing scenarios/storylines
• Use adaptation as a vehicle for addressing
  multiple pressures and maybe indirect drivers
  (root causes) and moving towards sustainable
  development