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Foreign‐funded adaptation to climate change in Africa: Mirroring administrative traditions or traditions of administrative blueprinting? [1]

Climate change impacts are most severe in developing countries with limited adaptive capacity. Accordingly, in Africa, climate change adaptation has become an issue of international funding and practice. As suggested in the Introduction to this special issue, administrative traditions could play a role in how adaptation plays out. This, however, raises questions about how foreign funding regimes coincide with recipients' administrative traditions, especially on the African continent where administrative traditions are often meagerly established.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
19/04/2018
Martinus Vink [3], Greetje Schouten [4]
Review of Policy Research [5]
1-43
Tags:
Climate Change [6], Africa [7], Climate Impacts [8], Climate Adaptation [9], Aid [10]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/foreign%E2%80%90funded-adaptation-climate-change-africa-mirroring-administrative-traditions
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ropr.12291
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/martinus-vink
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/greetje-schouten
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/review-policy-research
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/aid