Title: Adaptation learning from case studies for adaptation policies and sustainable development Habiba Git
1Adaptation 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
2What 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
3Human activities Population/demographic Consumptio
n/production Technological changes
4Human activities
LULCC
GHG
5Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
6Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
7Human activities
LULCC
GHG
Air pollution aerosols
Pers org poll
Strat ozone dep
Climate change
Land degradation
Changes in biodiversity
Water degradation
8Linkages.
Between Climate change Land degradation water
degradation and loss in biodiversity
9Human 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
-ve
10Ecosystem 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
11Human 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
-ve
Responses to reverse trends and meet sust dev
goals
Responses
12Human 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
13Response options for developing policies
- Economic
- Legal and institutional
- Social and Behavioural
- Science technology technology transfer
- All of these can be part of adaptation
14What 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..)
15Our 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
16Our 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
17Our approach future stages
- Awareness raising
- Information generation and dissemination
- planning and decision-making
- private sector
- Tools and methods (maybe)
- Resources
18So 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
19In 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