Naslov
How inequality translates to vulnerability

Autori
Puđak, Jelena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
1st annual IPE Conference: Climate justice - Perspectives from the natural and social sciencies

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 13.11.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Plenarno

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
inequality ; vulnerability ; pro-poor climate policy

Sažetak
Climate change present hazards to individuals and society as a whole. The damages associated with extreme weather events are shaped by the social, political and economic vulnerabilities of people and societies, and can be reduced with measures ranging from mitigation to the reduction of vulnerabilities of individuals and groups. Having in mind inequality and vulnerability, the damages associated with climate events results more from the conditions on the ground than from climate variability or change. Following a short review of vulnerability theory we will outline how diverse causal structures of vulnerability can relate to identifying policy responses to reduce the vulnerability of poor and marginal groups. Keeping away from exclusivist approaches, the risk-hazard aproach and social constructivist aproach, integrative framework enables multiscale analisys of vulnerability. Because the adaptatiton to climate change aims to reduce human vulnerability it can not be limited to solving only imidiate consequances of calimate induced calamity to bring about pre-change deprived state. Effective climate policy mast aim to erradicate this 'normal' state, and improve overall capacities of unprivilaged groups. Understanding multiscale causal structure of specific vulnerability – such as risk of flood, or displacement – can point to solutions and policy construction, as well as identification of institutions respnsible for producing and capable of reducing climate induced risks. We conclude with a discusion of goverance, arguing that moving decision making in favour of the poor will require systematic representation of the poor and marginal people in climat decision- maing procsses.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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