Vulnerability here, there, and everywhere: What happened to ghana's decentralized climate change adaptation policy?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vulnerability here, there, and everywhere: What happened to ghana's decentralized climate change adaptation policy?

Original language description

Across all the Bretton Wood institutions, decentralization has been touted as a fulcrum of good governance.This idea has had a sweeping effect across many areas of governance including climate change adaptation.However, the emerging climate change policy literature have had less focus on how decentralization can enhance adaptation governance at the local level.In Ghana, local governments have been given adaptation responsibility, through recently passed national climate change policies (NCCPs).This chapter of the book draws on experiences from the implementation of the NCCPs at the district level in Ghana which is perceived as a luminary of decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa.The chapter specifically assesses the extent to which decentralization of NCCPs has impacted adaptation governance at the local level.The chapter therefore aims at fostering understanding of the nuances of implementing decentralized adaptation governance in developing countries among scholars and policy practitioners.It concludes that though decentralized adaptation governance in Ghana increases the institutional space for community participation in adaptation governance it is falling far short of creating a the management regime capable of building requisite adaptive capacity as envisage by the NCCPs at the local level.Although it is extremely premature to draw reliable conclusions, the chapter identified some positive trends amidst challenges.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation

ISBN

978-3-319-72873-5

Number of pages of the result

19

Pages from-to

105-123

Number of pages of the book

589

Publisher name

Springer International Publishing AG

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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