Understanding constraints to adaptation using a community-centred toolkit

Author:

Buffa Danielle C.1ORCID,Thompson Katharine E. T.123ORCID,Reijerkerk Dana4ORCID,Brittain Stephanie5ORCID,Manahira George6,Samba Roger6,Lahiniriko Francois6,Brenah Marius Clovis Jean6,Augustin Jean Yves6,Tsitohery Justome Ricky Francois6,Razafy Roi Magnefa6,Leonce Harison6,Rasolondrainy Tanambelo7ORCID,Douglass Kristina268ORCID

Affiliation:

1. The Pennsylvania State University, 312 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA, USA

2. The Climate School, Columbia University, Hogan Hall, 2910 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA

3. Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, 101 Circle Rd, SBS Building S-501, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

4. Stony Brook University Libraries, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

5. Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3SZ, UK

6. The Morombe Archaeological Project, Commune de Befandefa, Ampamata Andavadoake 618, Madagascar

7. Université de Toliara, Centre de Documentation et de Recherche, sur l’Art et les Traditions Orales à Madagascar, Université de Toliara, Toliara 601, Madagascar

8. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA

Abstract

Worldwide, marginalized and low-income communities will disproportionately suffer climate change impacts while also retaining the least political power to mitigate their consequences. To adapt to environmental shocks, communities must balance intensifying natural resource consumption with the need to ensure the sustainability of ecosystem provisioning services. Thus, scientists have long been providing policy recommendations that seek to balance humanitarian needs with the best outcomes for the conservation of ecosystems and wildlife. However, many conservation and development practitioners from biological backgrounds receive minimal training in either social research methods or participatory project design. Without a clear understanding of the sociocultural factors shaping decision-making, their initiatives may fail to meet their goals, even when communities support proposed initiatives. This paper explores the underlying assumptions of a community's agency, or its ability to develop and enact preferred resilience-enhancing adaptations. We present a context-adaptable toolkit to assess community agency, identify barriers to adaptation, and survey perceptions of behaviour change around natural resource conservation and alternative food acquisition strategies. This tool draws on public health and ecology methods to facilitate conversations between community members, practitioners and scientists. We then provide insights from the toolkit's collaborative development and pilot testing with Vezo fishing communities in southwestern Madagascar. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture’.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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