Building climate change adaptation on community experiences
Subtitle: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
By: Nyasha Chishakwe, Laurel Murray and Muyeye Chambwera
Contributors: Murray, Laurel (Laurel A.); Chambwera, Muyeye; International Institute for Environment and Development
Publisher: International Institute for Environment and Development (UK)
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781843698302
Subjects: Natural resources; Management; Climatic changes; Climate; Community development
Description: "This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels. Using case studies from southern Africa, the publication demonstrates the synergies between CBA and CBNRM, most important of which are the adaptation co-benefits between the two. While local incentives have driven community action in CBNRM, it is the evolution of an enabling environment in the region, in the form of institutions, policies, capacity and collaboration which characterises the scaling up of CBNRM to national and regional levels."