Text of In Vietnam: Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network - Key Concepts
1. Key Concepts - Integrating ecosystem management approaches
into people-centered adaptation Carina Bachofen April 28, 2011
Hanoi, Vietnam
2.
How has climate change affected your work?
Does your organization focus on a particular aspect of climate
change?
What do you think are the major challenges to implementing
adaptation policy and practice in Vietnam?
Addressing Climate Change in Vietnam
3. What does good adaptation look like?
Long-term livelihood security
A continuous process
Results are sustained
Resources are efficiently and sustainably used
Pro-poor planning is key
Old strategies and new knowledge are combined
- Addressing changing disaster risks
4. Community-based Adaptation A community-led process based on
communities priorities, needs, knowledge, and capacities, which
should empower people to plan for and adapt to the impacts of
climate change Hannah Reid, Mozaharul Alam, Rachel Berger, Terry
Cannon, Saleemul Huq, and Angela Milligan, Community-based
adaptation to climate change: an overview, 2010
5. Focus for Today: Integrated Approaches to Adaptation WHAT is
the role that ecosystem goods and services play in community-based
adaptation? WHY is integrating sound ecosystem management important
for adaptation policy and practice that helps people? HOW can we
integrate sound ecosystem management practices into policy and
practice that helps people adapt?
6. Understanding the role of ecosystems in community-based
adaptation
Why is integrating sound ecosystem management important for
adaptation?
To improve our diagnosis
To avoid maladaptation
To reduce costs and increase sustainability
7. 2. Avoiding Maladaptation
Promoting sound ecosystem management in adaptation can:
Avoid one-sided or incoherent, approaches based on NRM
Discourage destructive practices
(i.e. degradation, deforestation, etc)
Improve human health, facilitate human habitation, economic
activity, and sustainable livelihood activities
8. 3. Reducing costs of adaptation while building community
resilience
Ecosystem-based solutions are often more effective and less
costly than hard infrastructure options
9. How do we integrate ecosystem management approaches into
adaptation planning? Promote approaches that reduce human pressures
on ecosystems Emphasize bottom-up approaches that promote community
engagement in adaptation Promote and maintain flexibility to adapt
to a dynamic climate Work across different social, political and
ecological scales
10. Integrated Approaches: a new way of thinking about
Adaptation
No longer an adaptation option perhaps the adaptation
option!
A work in progress
What are your thoughts?
11. Thank you! Carina Bachofen [email protected] ELAN
Website: www.elanadapt.net
