Journal: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

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Mitig. adapt. strategies glob. chang.

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1381-2386
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  • Subsistence over symbolism: the role of transnational municipal networks on cities’ climate policy innovation and adoption
    Item type: Journal Article
    Rashidi, Kaveh; Patt, Anthony (2018)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    Urban areas account for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, and increasingly, it is city governments that are adopting and implementing climate mitigation policies. Many municipal governments have joined two different global city networks that aim to promote climate policy development at the urban scale, and there is qualitative evidence that such networks play an important role in motivating cities to adopt climate policies and helping them to implement them. Our study objective is to test this proposition quantitatively, making use of a global database on cities’ environmental policy adoption, and also taking into account a large number of other factors that could play a role in climate policy adoption. Controlling for these other factors, we find that network membership does make a significant difference in the number of different measures that city governments adopt. We also find that there are significant differences between the two different networks, suggesting that the nature of the services that such networks offer their members can play an important role. Our findings lead to the provision of a set of global mitigation strategies: First of all, joining the city networks can lead to a generation of global strategies which can result into climate mitigation benefits. However, cities are required to select the network which provides proper tailor made policies. Second, in the absence of concrete international commitments at the local level, city networks lay the ground for global governance and enable cities to adopt policies independently and proactively. Third, consideration of co-benefits of climate policies can optimize the development of global strategies.
  • Greenhouse gas mitigation and offset options for suckler cow farms
    Item type: Journal Article
    Briner, Simon; Hartmann, Michael; Finger, Robert; et al. (2012)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • The Role of Wood Material for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gustavsson, L.; Madlener, R.; Hoen, H.-F.; et al. (2006)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schröter, Dagmar; Polsky, Colin; Patt, Anthony (2005)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Climate change mitigation and international finance: the effectiveness of the Clean Development Mechanism and the Global Environment Facility in India and Brazil
    Item type: Journal Article
    Tatrallyay, N.; Stadelmann, M. (2013)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Challenges of instruments that should tackle multi-hazard and multi-risk situations: an assessment of the recent reforms of the European Solidarity Fund and the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; Zhu, Qinhan; Reiter, Karina; et al. (2023)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    The European Union has some dedicated tools and mechanisms available to respond to natural hazard events including the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF). It follows the objective of granting financial assistance to Member States in the event of a major disaster with serious consequences. In the latest EU long-term budget plan—the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027—the EUSF was merged with the Emergency Aid Reserve (EAR) to form the new Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve (SEAR). One additional significant change was made in 2020 which saw an extension of the scope of the EUSF. This extension allowed the EUSF to cover losses incurred due to major public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore now a multi-hazard and multi-risk financing instrument designed to financially assist during the emergency phase in case of an emergency event. We assess the consequences of these changes in the light of potential advantages as well as disadvantages compared to the prior EUSF structure. The results will be used to provide some policy recommendations as to how to move forward with the identified challenges. We especially recommend separating the EUSF from the coverage of large-scale public health emergencies and the emergencies covered by the EAR. Instead, we suggest establishing a new flexibility instrument that covers emergencies such as public health related ones as well as the ones within the EAR. The analysis gives some important insights, scientific as well as policy wise, about advantages as well as limitations of financial instruments that simultaneously should tackle different types of hazards and risks.
  • Making index insurance attractive to farmers
    Item type: Journal Article
    Patt, Anthony; Peterson, Nicole; Carter, Michael; et al. (2009)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: what role for policy-makers, society and scientists?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Vignola, Raffaele; Locatelli, Bruno; Martinez, Celia; et al. (2009)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    In developing countries where economies and livelihoods depend largely on ecosystem services, policies for adaptation to climate change should take into account the role of these services in increasing the resilience of society. This ecosystem-based approach to adaptation was the focus of an international workshop on “Adaptation to Climate Change: the role of Ecosystem Services” held in November 2008 in Costa Rica. This article presents the key messages from the workshop.
  • Measuring the economic effects of sea level rise on shore fishing
    Item type: Journal Article
    Whitehead, John C.; Poulter, Ben; Dumas, Christopher F.; et al. (2009)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Beyond feasibility—the role of motivation to implement measures to enhance resilience: Evidence from drought-affected smallholder farmers in Ghana and Ethiopia
    Item type: Journal Article
    Messmer, Luzian; Thom, Braida; Kruetli, Pius; et al. (2021)
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    Many regions around the world are experiencing an increase in climate-related shocks, such as drought. This poses serious threats to farming activities and has major implications for sustaining rural livelihoods and food security. Farmers’ ability to respond to and withstand the increasing incidence of drought events needs to be strengthened and their resilience enhanced. Implementation of measures to enhance resilience is determined by decisions of farmers and it is important to understand the reasons behind their behavior. We assessed the viability of measures to enhance resilience of farmers to drought, by developing a general framework that covers economic-technical and psychological-cognitive aspects, here summarized under the terms (1) motivation and (2) feasibility. The conceptual framework was applied to cocoa farmers in Ghana and tef farmers in Ethiopia by using questionnaire-based surveys. A portfolio of five specific measures to build resilience (i.e., irrigation, shade trees, fire belts, bookkeeping, mulching, early mature varieties, weather forecast, reduced tillage, improved harvesting) in each country was evaluated with a closed-ended questionnaire that covered the various aspects of motivation and feasibility whereby farmers were asked to (dis)agree on a 5-point Likert scale. The results show that if the motivation mean score is increased by 0.1 units, the probability of implementation increases by 16.9% in Ghana and by 7.7% in Ethiopia. If the feasibility mean score is increased by 0.1 units, the probability of implementation increases by 24.9% in Ghana and by 11.9% in Ethiopia. We can conclude that motivation and feasibility matter, and we improve our understanding of measure implementation if we include both feasibility and motivation into viability assessments.
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