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Title: | Overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation implementation in Southern Africa |
Editors: | Masters, Lesley Duff, Lyndsey |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 262 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Pretoria |
Publisher: | Africa Institute of South Africa |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Botswana Mozambique Namibia South Africa |
Subjects: | climate change government policy conference papers (form) 2011 |
Abstract: | Adapting to the impacts of climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the African continent. However, southern African nations, like most other developing countries, are finding it increasingly difficult to implement adaptation strategies as a result of a number of barriers. Against this background, the Institute for Global Dialogue in Pretoria conducted a policy-oriented analysis of adaptation implementation challenges and ways of overcoming them in southern Africa. The results were debated in an open multi-stakeholder dialogue hosted by the IGD on 4 April 2011. The discussion focused on the nature of the barriers to adaptation in areas as diverse as political governance, social development, economic governance, finance, technology and law. Ten papers were presented for the five identified barriers, one that provides an overview and analysis of the specific challenges to adaptation and one that highlights a particular country case study and the lessons learnt. Political barriers are discussed by Romy Chevallier (SADC region) and Elisha N. Toteng (Botswana), social barriers by Lindsey Jones (SADC region) and Hayley Leck et al. (South Africa), economic barriers by Sheila Kiratu (SADC region) and Laudika Kandjinga, Jessica Smith and Juliane Zeidler (Namibia), financial barriers by Bongani Motsa (SADC region) and Michelle Pressend (South Africa), technological barriers by Thokozani Simelane, Martin Kaggwa and Shingirirai Mutanga (SADC region), and Manuel Chenene et al. (Mozambique), and legal barriers by Marie Parramon. The conclusion is by Lesley Masters and an appendix contains the opening address to the workshop by Stuart Mangold. [ASC Leiden abstract] |