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UNDERSTANDING VULNERABILITY: INCREASING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY AND
RESILIENCE AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
EFFECTS AND DISASTERSby
Emma Porio, PhDProfessor of Sociology and Chairperson, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University and Research Fellow, Manila Observatory. Discussion, Understanding Vulnerability Session, Adapting to Climate Change and Water Security in Asia, June 18-20,
2013, Kathmandu, Nepal
Studies: 1) Resurreccion: Adapting to Climate Change in Peri-Urban Southeast Asia (SEI (Phil, Thailand, Vietnam)coastal, flood plains, lakeside, delta2) Dr. K. Ghaus & N. Ahmed: Gender and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change (SPDC (Pakistan)3) Doch and Diepart: Vulnerabilities of Agricultural Production to Flood Cambodia Learning Institute (watershed,….)4) Anupriya: Gender, Security and Sanitation (Jagori and WICI, India)5) Loyzaga & Porio: Coastal Cities at Risk
URBANSYSTEMS
DISASTER RISKREDUCTION
CLIMATECHANGE
RURALSYSTEMS
VULNERABLEGROUPS Direct
Impact
1.How does the city work?
3. Who is least able to respond to shocks and
stresses?
2. What are the direct and
indirect impacts of climate change?URBAN
POVERTYREDUCTION
URBAN CLIMATE
CHANGE RISK
Climate impacts: a compound effect combining direct impacts, indirect impacts and pre-existing vulnerabilities.(Porio, 2013 modified from Jo da Silva, Sam Kernaghan & Andrés Luque, 2012)
PERI-URBANSYSTEMS
Approach: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience
• Ecological-Environmental vulnerabilities intersect with
• Social-Pol-Eco. Vulnerabilities (meso/macro levels): peri-/urban growth/urbanization, poverty and inequality, governance/institutional
interact with• Social-Pol-Eco.Vulnerabilities(household, family-
community/commune levels): Age, socio-economic status (income, occupation, education, gender, health)
Vulnerability: Multi-dimensional/layer, cross-scale, socially differentiated, place-based, genderedApproach: multi-level analysis of vulnerability of socio-ecological systems (urban/peri-urban systems/watershed, community/commune, households) Data Sources/Methods/Analysis: Primary and Secondary; Quantitative/Qualitative; Scoping, Socio-eco profiling, infra-services inventory, gender analysis (impacts to services, livelihoods, income sources), multiple group dialogues, FGDs, KIIs, Vulnerability-Capacity Index
Drivers of climate change effects and vulnerability (flood, water shortage)Bio-physical/Spatial/Eco-environmental contextsSocial Political-EconomicImpacts: Interactions/Intersections ofAdaptive Factors/ResponsesSocial Poverty, Gender: crosscutting themes Political-Economic: shifts in distribution of eco resources, income sources and power relations Governance-Institutional (Infra-services deficit) Reconfigure vertical/horizontal Spatial-Social-Institutional Structures and Processes
Vulnerability and Adaptation Studies: 1) Richly textured, multiple layered methodologies and analysis of vulnerability;
2) capture the “mutually-reinforcing dynamics” of climate change effects and ecologically-socially- politically-gender differentiated vulnerabilities
3) Shaped patterns of adaptive options/responses and strategies
Understanding Vulnerability Increasing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience
• Calibrating the interconnectedness of drivers or forces: bio-physical and social (poverty/inequality, health, and political-economic variables)
• Bio-physical-Spatial-Social dimensions: policy, planning and programming
• Science-based/empirically driven: social, political, economic applications to reduce risks to the most vulnerable: peri-/urban poor (e.g.,women, young/old)
• Connecting diff levels of decision-making action frames integrated, coherent policies/programs
Maraming salamat po! Salamat kaayo sa inyong
tanan!
Thank you!
Drivers of climate change and vulnerability Bio-physical/Spatial: Social Political-EconomicImpacts: Multiple, Intersecting Layers of Adaptive Factors and ResponsesSocial: Gender, Poor,Political-Economic Governance-Institutional
Reconfigure:Spatial-Social-Institutional Structures and Processes
Climate impacts: a compound effect combining direct impacts, indirect impacts and pre-existing vulnerabilities.(Source: Jo da Silva, Sam Kernaghan & Andrés Luque, 2012)
URBANSYSTEMS
DISASTER RISKREDUCTION
CLIMATECHANGE
RURALSYSTEMS
VULNERABLEGROUPS
Direct Impact
1.How does the city work?
3. Who is least able to respond to shocks and stresses?
2. What are the direct and
indirect impacts of climate change?
URBAN POVERTY
REDUCTION
URBAN CLIMATECHANGE RISK