Ecosystems-based adaptation: are we being conned?, SEED, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2017-02-03

Dr Andrew Newsham shares his research on using biodiversity and/or ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change (Ecosystems-based adaptation, or EBA).  In recent years EBA has been championed by a range of international conservation and development actors such as the World Bank, The Nature Conservancy, IUCN, the UNEP and others.
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In SEED (SOAS Political Ecology of Environment and Development) (https://goo.gl/Lbh2MR)  we ask the big questions around the role of the current social, political and economic order in producing environmental challenges in the first place. Our group a takes a political ecology approach to understanding global environmental change, and we actively consider alternatives that require fundamental restructuring, and which go beyond mitigation. This relies on interdisciplinary approaches that fully integrate humanities and social sciences in ways cut across traditional boundaries of Development Studies, Law, Politics and International Relations, Area Studies and Economics.