Browsing by Author "Vincent, Katharine"

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    Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2023-01-03) Sparkes, Edward; Totin, Edmond; Werners, Saskia E.; Wise, Russell M.; Butler, James R.A.; Vincent, Katharine
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    Advancing the application of climate and hydrological information and its translation into policy, Panama City, Panama, 6-9 October 2015 : workshop report
    (2015) Waagsaether, Katinka; Cull, Tracy; Vincent, Katharine
    Targeting country teams of modellers, principal investigators (PIs) and policy-makers from International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-funded Climate Change and Water projects in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, the aim of the workshop was to strengthen science-society communication pathways by giving participants the opportunity to reflect on challenges and opportunities of applying climate and hydrological information into policy. The critical role of politicians was highlighted, with policy-makers themselves complaining that politicians do not see the value of the bigger picture, and are less open to alternative management strategies and approaches
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    Applying the global RCP–SSP–SPA scenario framework at subnational scale : a multi-scale and participatory scenario approach
    (Elsevier B.V., 2018-09-01) Kebede, Abiy S.; Nicholls, Robert J.; Allan, Andrew; Arto, Iñaki; Cazcarro, Ignacio; Fernandes, Jose A.; Hill, Chris T.; Hutton, Craig W.; Kay, Susan; Lázár, Attila N.; Macadam, Ian; Palmer, Matthew; Suckall, Natalie; Tompkins, Emma L.; Vincent, Katharine; Whitehead, Paul W.
    The paper highlights the importance of multi-scale (top-down/ bottom-up) and participatory scenario methods for addressing uncertainty in adaptation decision-making. The framework facilitates improved integrated assessments of potential impacts for plausible adaptation policy choices, including migration. It considers four distinct policy trajectories: Minimum intervention; Economic capacity expansion; System efficiency enhancement; and System restructuring. The paper responds to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5). The article includes an extensive bibliography of references.
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    Building climate resilience in Africa & Asia : lessons on organisation, management & collaboration from research consortia
    (IDRC, 2019) Currie-Alder, Bruce; Cundill Kemp, Georgina; Scodanibbio, Lucia; Vincent, Katharine; Prakash, Anjal; Nathe, Nathalie
    During 2014–2018, the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) supported four transdisciplinary research consortia involving more than 40 institutions across 15 countries. Drawing on participant surveys, technical reports and focus group discussions, this paper identifies three sets of lessons.
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    Climate change adaptation research for impact
    (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asis (CARIAA), 2019-02) Prakash, Anjal; Cundill, Georgina; Scodanibbio, Lucia; Vincent, Katharine; Nathe, Nathalie; Morchain, Daniel; DeMaria-Kinney, Jesse; Soumelong Ehode, Lancelot; Sukla, Debabrat; Mishra, Arabinda; Piryani, Aneel
    This paper shares lessons from the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), a seven-year transdisciplinary and cross-regional research programme that supported four consortia spanning Africa and Asia. CARIAA was committed to research on climate change adaptation that supported learning, the co-production of knowledge and solutions, and that informed policy and practice. With more than five years of dedicated experimentation with R4I, and with scores of successful examples of contribution to local and national policy, as well as failures, CARIAA offers rich lessons on how to pursue R4I in similarly large research programmes.
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    Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia : Volta, Mahanadi and Ganges Brahmaputra-Meghna
    (2019-03) Arto, Iñaki; Cazcarro, Ignacio; Markandya, Anil; Hazra, Somnath; Bhattacharya, Rabindra Nath; Adjei, Prince Osei-Wusu; Vincent, Katharine
    This policy brief explores the economic implications of climate change for the three deltas of the "DEltas, Vulnerability, and Climate Change: Migration as an Adaptation (DECCMA)" project: Volta (Ghana), Mahanadi (India) and Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM, Bangladesh and the Indian Bengal delta in India). The Delta Computable General Equilibrium (Delta-CGE) model simulates how the economy might react to impacts of climate change under three different economic baseline narratives. The scenarios of DECCMA are based on the new global scenario framework developed for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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    Climate change, migration and adaptation in deltas Key findings from the DECCMA projet
    (Deltas, vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration & Adaptation (DECCMA), 2019) Ayamga, Jennifer; Das, Shouvik; Banerjee, Sumana; Nicholls, Robert; Hutton, Craig; Vincent, Katharine; Rahman, Munsur; Salehin, Mashfiqus; Rahman, Anisur; Ghosh, Tuhin; Codjoe, Samuel N.A.; Appeaning-Addo, Kwasi; Owusu, Gertrude; DECCMA Consortium
    Deltas are home to 500 million people worldwide and known as a climate hange “hotspot” – a place where high exposure to climate stresses coincides with high levels of vulnerability. DECCMA has been undertaking research on climate and environmental change, migration and adaptation in three delta ystems: the transboundary Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna megadelta (comprising the Indian Bengal delta, as well as the bulk in Bangladesh), the Mahanadi delta in India, and the Volta in Ghana.
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    Collaborating for adaptation : findings and outcomes of a research initiative across Africa and Asia
    (2020) O’Neill, Mary; Czunyi, Sarah; Currie-Alder, Bruce; Cundill-Kemp, Georgina; Leone, Michele; Vincent, Katharine
    Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) is dedicated to building the resilience of vulnerable people and their livelihoods in three types of climate change hotspots in Africa and Asia: deltas, semi-arid lands, and glacier- and snowpack-dependent river basins. This beautiful and detailed report provides results of the CARIAA initiatives’ impact on knowledge, capacity, policy and planning. CARIAA made significant contributions in five key areas to enhance the resilience of people living in climate hotspots. These are elaborated upon in the report along with links to related information. Participants from all consortia were gathered at CARIAA’s third annual learning review in Nepal.
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    Collaborer pour l’adaptation : constatations et résultats d’une initiative de recherche en Afrique et en Asie
    (2020) O’Neill, Mary; Czunyi, Sarah; Currie-Alder, Bruce; Cundill-Kemp, Georgina; Leone, Michele; Vincent, Katharine
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    D6.6.1 Scoping report on adaptation finance initiatives in Bangladesh, Ghana and India
    (Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty) Ltd, 2016-08) Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy
    The report addresses sub-task WT 6.6.1 in the DECCMA workplan – to scope and document all adaptation finance initiatives available in each delta, as part of deliverable D6.6.1 – a scoping report on adaptation finance initiatives available in each delta. Given that the international adaptation finance initiatives available in each delta are broadly the same, this is all summarised in one report, as opposed to one for each of the four deltas. The report informs the third aim of the project, to “Lead to the development of gender-sensitive adaptation funding proposals in the three deltas”.
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    DECCMA's approach to the incorporation of gender
    (2015) Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy
    The paper provides an overview of gender-sensitive design in the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project; how the design was elaborated; how the research process will be gender-sensitive, and the mechanisms that DECCMA has put in place to support this, with ongoing steps to ensure that the aims and objectives are met through a gender sensitive research process. Migration flows are strongly gendered: the focus of the DECCMA project is on climate change and sea level rise as well as other drivers such as economic changes or political conflicts that can affect migration.
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    Deltas, vulnerability and climate change ; migration and adaptation (DECCMA) CARIAA consortium final technical report 2018
    (CARIAA, 2018-12) Nicholls, Robert J.; Kebede, Abiy; Hutton, Craig W.; Dunn, Frances E.; Vincent, Katharine; Rahman, Munsur; Salehin, Mashfiqus; Rahman, Anisur; Ghosh, Tuhin; Banerjee, Sumana; Codjoe, Samuel N.A.; Appeaning-Addo, Kwasi; Owusu, Gertrude; DECCMA Consortium
    This report summarises the main outcomes and learning from management and delivery of the nearly 5-year “DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change; Migration and Adaptation” (DECCMA) project within the “Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia” (CARIAA) programme. DECCMA considered climate change and deltas with a strong focus on adaptation and migration within deltas, including migration as an adaptation. It was committed to being gender-sensitive in research approach, data collection, and analysis. Globally deltas and their environs house 500 million (or 7 percent of global population) people on one percent of the land area, with a concentration of populated deltas at mid and low latitudes. Deltas are highly dynamic biophysically. This includes a high vulnerability to sea-level rise and climate change, and also subsidence (deltas sink), exacerbating global changes in sea level. Deltas are also socially dynamic, with changing land use, economies and strong trends of migration that have potential to be modified under future environmental and climate change.
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    Designing adaptation policy trajectories
    (2017) Suckall, Natalie; Tompkins, Emma L.; Hutton, Craig; Lázár, Attila N.; Kebede, Abiy S.; Nicholls, Robert; Vincent, Katharine; Allan, Andrew; Chapman, Alex; Rahman, Rezaur; Ghosh, Tuhin
    This document provides a description of the adaptation policy trajectories planned for use in the ‘Deltas, Vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation’ (DECCMA) model. It provides policy makers with insight into the impact of policy choices that specifically address adaptation to climate change. It explains the framework of elements that influence commitment to significant policy change and investment in adaptation policy trajectories. Interventions need to address drivers of vulnerability, disaster risk reduction, land use and ecosystem resilience. DECCMA’s geographical focus is on the Volta in Ghana, the Mahanadi in India, and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) spanning India and Bangladesh.
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    Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris agreement
    (Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 2018-06-19) Tompkins, Emma L.; Vincent, Katharine; Nicholls, Robert J.; Suckall, Natalie; Hulme, Mike
    The paper proposes a new “stocktaking” approach to document the spectrum and prevalence of observed adaptation over large scales. The four-step approach focuses on: (a) obtaining consensus on the objectives of adaptation; (b) agreeing on the sources of evidence; (c) agreeing on the search method; and (d) categorizing the adaptations. With guidance on how to operationalize, this approach could improve the transparency of adaptation data collection and analysis, ensure comparability of findings, and inform the Adaptation Communications (Article 7.10), a prerequisite to strengthening future ambition commitments within the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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    Evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global south : a review of literature published in three major journals between 2010-2020
    (2020-08) Vincent, Katharine; Cundill, Georgina
    This paper assesses the evolution of adaptation research in the global South over the last decade (2010-2020) using a scoping review approach. Research has covered both policy and practice at different scales, from regional, to national, to individual/household, with a particular focus on agricultural and rural settings. The review shows there is significant and growing interest in the determinants of adaptation and adaptive capacity, including the role of barriers and enablers, as well as in the role of gender. Large swathes of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East/North Africa remain severely under-researched. The majority of papers focus on rural and agricultural issues rather than cities.
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    A framework for the design and evaluation of adaptation pathways in large river deltas
    (DECCMA, 2016-03) Chapman, Alex; Tompkins, Emma L.; Vincent, Katharine; Day, Sophie
    The pathways approach to adaptation has been applied to delta regions previously, but to a limited extent, Haasnoot et al. (2012), for instance, explore a theoretical delta case. Perhaps the most pertinent example is Kwakkel et al. (2015), who systematically evaluate adaptation pathways in the Rhine Delta. They highlight the strong decision-support potential of systematic multi-objective evaluation of flexible pathways (i.e. pathways which can be switched between as the system evolves through time). Yet their policy set might be regarded as restricted when compared with the scope of the DECCMA project; they do not model household decision-making or diverse livelihoods, and consider primarily hard, hydraulic adaptation interventions. Most importantly they do not consider migration and relocation choices, which are now becoming pertinent in delta regions. The systematic evaluation of cross-sectoral adaptation pathways at the large-system scale seems largely unexplored, and worthy of consideration for methodological learning, and because of its potential role in enabling climate-resilient development.
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    From pilots to systems : barriers and enablers to scaling up the use of climate information services in smallholder farming communities
    (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia, IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016) Singh, Chandni; Urquhart, Penny; Kituyi, Evans; Vincent, Katharine
    Transitioning from climate information services (CIS) pilot programmes to scaled up systems is possible when scaling up is mainstreamed in the project design stage, along with a clear financial model for sustainability, and includes multiple stakeholders who identify and engage with pilot-project champions and intermediaries. New communication mechanisms such as information and communication technologies (ICTs) help to create and support effective partnerships that enable knowledge co-production. This paper explores the key constraints to, and enablers of, scaling up CIS by drawing on case studies from research, policy and practice in Africa and South Asia.
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    How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia : a guide for researchers, practitioners and communicators
    (2020) Baker, Emma; McNamara, Lisa; Mackay, Beth; Vincent, Katharine
    This publication shares guidelines and tips on how to edit Wikipedia. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, communicators and any others with access to climate change information who would like to share it more widely with the world.
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    Measuring progress on climate adaptation from concepts to practical application
    (Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, 2018-12) Vincent, Katharine; Ofwona, Edith
    Despite the recognition that adaptation is necessary and the political and financial support for it, to date there are no universally accepted metrics to measure it. Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation is subject to two main challenges: knowing what adaptation is to be able to measure it, and determining whether the adaptation actions are effective in reducing vulnerability to climate change. There is also the need to reduce undue burden on countries who also have to report progress against the Sustainable Development Goals and Sendai Framework. Various countries have developed their own monitoring and evaluation systems for charting progress with adaptation. Several methodologies have also been proposed for use at a variety of scales, and here we outline four: Adaptation Tracking Tool, Tracking Adaptation and Monitoring Development; Tracking Adaptive Capacity and Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection and Learning.
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    Migration and household adaptation in climate : sensitive hotspots in South Asia
    (Springer, 2020-02-19) Maharjan, Amina; Safra de Campos, Ricardo; Singh, Chandi; Das, Shouvik; Srinivas, Arjun; Alam Bhuiyan, Mohammad Rashed; Ishaq, Sultan; Awais Umar, Muhammad; Dilshad, Tanzania; Shrestha, Krity; Bhadwal., Suruchi; Ghosh, Tuhin; Suckall, Natalie; Vincent, Katharine
    Under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) initiative, four research consortia have investigated migration patterns and their inherent linkages to adaptation to climate change in climate hotspots. This article synthesizes key findings in the regional context of South Asia. In climate-sensitive hotspots, migration is an important livelihood diversification strategy and a response to various risks, including climate change. Migration was mainly used as a response to risk and uncertainty, but with potential to have positive adaptation co-benefits. The outcomes of migration are often influenced by who moves, where to, and what capacities they possess.