{"id":1970,"date":"2017-11-07T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2017-11-10T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:19:05","slug":"should-we-unpack-community-based-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/11\/07\/should-we-unpack-community-based-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we unpack “community-based adaptation”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Natalie Suckall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Despite many examples of successful community-based adaptation, DECCMA’s extensive household survey\u00a0 across four deltas found very little evidence of collective action. Rather than being activities in addition to those of the household, instead community-level effects are only observed when there is an aggregation of household-based activities. Does this mean that we need to better interrogate “community-based adaptation”?<\/p>\n

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Natalie Suckall presents at the Development Studies Association 2017 annual conference<\/p><\/div>\n

Interest in this topic emerged at the recent Development Studies Association 2017 annual conference<\/a>, held at the University of Bradford. Five DECCMA researchers led a panel on sustainable deltas<\/a>. From varied presentations on observed adaptation, adaptation governance, migration and remittances, and migration and adaptation, a common theme emerged – that of scale. In particular, how does DECCMA understand events that take place at the community level, as opposed to the household or national level?<\/p>\n

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One of the issues faced by DECCMA researchers was that no examples of collective action and very few examples of community based adaptation were found during our initial literature review of observable adaptation in the deltas.<\/p>\n

Although some adaptation interventions were characterised as CBA, their impact was often felt at the household level where different households within the community were affected in different ways. For example, polders (land reclaimed from the sea) in Bangladesh are often described as a community adaptation as they aim to protect entire communities from flooding as well as providing land for farmers and fishers. Sometimes communities are involved in their construction.<\/p>\n

Whilst communities may be involved in the construction of polders, this does not mean that the benefits are equally spread.\u00a0 Within each polder there exist multiple competing interests between government, farmers, pond owners, and the landless.\u00a0 Larger and better off households are more likely to be successful farmers and fishers, with profit and yield unlikely to be distributed to the landless poor. What this really means is that each household is affected by the polder in a different way – and thus to talk of it as a community-based adaptation hides these differences.<\/p>\n

Our survey of 6000 households in the four study sites provided an opportunity to search for examples of collective action. We found that in all four locations less than a quarter of households were involved in a cooperative group.\u00a0 The highest membership was in the Indian Mahandi at 25%, whilst it was 14% in Ghana, 8% in Bangladesh, and only 6% in the Indian Bengal delta.<\/p>\n

In light of these findings, DECCMA’s integrated assessment model considers only national and household-level adaptations. Our survey evidence shows that community-based adaptation is far less important than household level, and is captured by aggregating household-level benefits. Since findings show that community-based adaptation can have variable effects, we should perhaps interrogate it before promoting as an appropriation adaptation to climate change.<\/p>\n

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