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Climate Change, Adaptation, And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities In El Salvador And Brazil, Christine Wamsler, Ebba Brink, Oskari Rantala
Climate Change, Adaptation, And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities In El Salvador And Brazil, Christine Wamsler, Ebba Brink, Oskari Rantala
Christine Wamsler
With a worldwide increase in disasters the effects of climate change are already being felt, and it is the urban poor in developing countries who are most at risk. There is an urgent need to better understand the factors that determine people’s capacity to cope with and adapt to adverse climate conditions. This paper examines the influence of formal education in determining the adaptive capacity of the residents of two low-income settlements: Los Manantiales in San Salvador (El Salvador) and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), where climate-related disasters are recurrent. In both case study areas, average levels of education …
Complementing Institutional With Localised Strategies For Climate Change Adaptation: A South–North Comparison, Christine Wamsler
Complementing Institutional With Localised Strategies For Climate Change Adaptation: A South–North Comparison, Christine Wamsler
Christine Wamsler
Climate change and disaster pose a serious and growing risk to sustainable urban development planning, with disasters having quadrupled in the last three decades. The extent of the changing climatic conditions, in combination with growing urbanisation, is making both Southern and Northern institutions and associated social security and governance systems increasingly inadequate in dealing with extreme weather events. This results in an urgent need to discover innovative ways to adapt “outdated” institutional responses and to increase local-level engagement. This paper analyses current risk financing mechanisms at local and institutional levels in both a Southern and a Northern city (San Salvador …