Prospects for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in Post-Conflict Nepal
Abstract
For the developing world, the impacts of climate change - from sea level rise and
more potent and erratic precipitation patterns to rapid deglaciation - are becoming
an increasingly frightening reality. Adaptation planning has thus become critical
for policymakers in developing countries as these impacts begin to have serious detrimental
economic and social implications. Due to a lack of data in many regions, the difficulty
of scaling down global circulation models to the country level, and the relative nascence
of adaptation theory and policy, however, there is little guidance as to what interventions
are likely to be most effective, especially in post-conflict developing countries
that face a number of institutional capacity constraints due to years of instability.
Focusing on one such highly vulnerable country, this brief assesses the prospects
of effective adaptation in post-conflict Nepal. Based on a comprehensive literature
review of likely impacts, post-conflict resource management, and adaptation theory
and context, followed by informal interviews with relevant stakeholders in Kathmandu
and the remote Himalayan middle hills, it is clear that key institutional reforms
addressing critical failures of governance, alongside immediate infrastructure development,
are crucial for successful adaptation to ultimately occur.
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Bartlett, Ryan (2010). Prospects for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in Post-Conflict Nepal. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2186.Collections
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