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Participatory Learning and Action 60 - Community-based adaptation to climate change
Guest-edited by Hannah Reid, Mozaharul Alam, Rachel Berger, Terry Cannon and Angela Milligan
Scientists are clear that climate change is happening, and that it is due to emissions of greenhouse gases produced largely by industrialised countries. Those likely to be worst affected are the world’s poorest countries, especially poor and marginalised communities within these countries. Ironically it is these poor countries and people who have contributed least to the problem of climate change, because of their very low greenhouse gas emissions, but who will suffer most from its consequences. Even if emissions are severely curbed, climate change will still occur. The industrialised countries have accepted they have a responsibility to help poor and vulnerable countries to adapt. However, until recently, most adaptation efforts have been top-down, and little attention has been paid to communities’ experiences of climate change and their efforts to cope with their changing environments.
This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action focuses on recent approaches to climate change adaptation which are community-based and participatory, building on the priorities, knowledge, and capacities of local people. It discusses how community-based approaches to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches. It highlights innovative participatory methods which are developing to help communities analyse the causes and effects of climate change, integrate scientific and community knowledge of climate change, and plan adaptation measures. Whilst CBA is a relatively new field, some lessons and challenges are beginning to emerge, including how to integrate disaster risk reduction, livelihoods and climate change adaptation work, climate change knowledge gaps, issues around the type and quality of participation, and the need for policies and institutions that support CBA.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Participatory Learning and Action 59 –
Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development
Guest-edited by Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi
Co-published by IIED and CTA
Web 2.0 tools and approaches are radically changing the ways we create, share, collaborate and publish digital information through the Internet. Participatory Web 2.0 for development – or Web2forDev for short – is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and online collaboration for development.
Participatory Learning and Action 58 - Towards empowered participation: stories and reflections
Guest-edited by Tom Wakeford and Jasber Singh
This special issue critically reflects on those rarely-discussed elements of processes that are disempowering to those with least power.
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Participatory Learning and Action 57– Immersions: learning about poverty face-to-face
Guest-edited by Izzy Birch, Raffaella Catani with Robert Chambers
Immersions are opportunities for development professionals to spend a period of time living with and learning from a poor family. A critical mass of interest is now gathering around the idea, among major donors and civil society groups.
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The PLA series has teamed up with IngentaConnect, a leading international online publisher. Now you can access the latest issues of PLA online as soon as they are published. If you are a subscriber, you can access these latest issues for free online. If you are not a subscriber, you can use the pay-per-view option to download whole issues or individual articles.
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Participatory Learning and Action 54 - Mapping for Change Multilingual CD Rom
The Participatory Mapping for Change CD-ROM is an exciting multi-lingual project. Co-published by IIED and CTA, in the following languages: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French, Hindi, Persian-Dari, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil.
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About Participatory Learning and Action
Participatory Learning and Action is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods.
It provides a forum for all those engaged in participatory work - community workers, activists and researchers - to share their experiences, conceptual reflections and methodological innovations with others. Learn more...
The series is informal and seeks to publish frank accounts, address issues of practical and immediate value, encourage innovation and act as a voice from the field. We particularly welcome contributions from practitioners in the South. PLA has over 50 international editorial advisory board members. Each member is an experienced participatory development practitioner. See below for details.
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Co-Editors: Angela Milligan, Nicole Kenton, Holly Ashley.
Strategic Editorial Advisory Board: Ivan Bond, Nazneen Kanji, Cath Long, Michel Pimbert, Jethro Pettit, David Satterthwaite, Sonja Vermuelen.
International Editorial Advisory Board: Oga Steve Abah, Jo Abbot, Jordi Surkin Beneria, L. David Brown, Andy Catley, Robert Chambers, Louise Chawla, Andrea Cornwall, Bhola Dahal, Quasim Deiri, John Devavaram, Charlotte Flower, Forum for Community Empowerment (FORCE) Nepal, Ian Goldman, Bara Gueye, Irene Guijt, Marcia Hills, Enamul Huda, Vicky Johnson, Lolichen Pullemplavil Joseph, Caren Levy, Sara Levy, Zhang Linyang, Ilya M. Moeliono, Humera Malik, Marjorie Jane Mbilinyi, Ali Mokhtar, Seyed Babak Moosavi, Neela Mukherjee, Trilok Neupane, Esse Nilsson, Zakariya Odeh, Peter Park, Bardolf Paul, Bimal Kumar Phnuyal, Giacomo Rambaldi, Peter Reason, Joel Rocamora, Jayatissa Samaranayake, Madhu Sarin, Daniel Selener, Meera Kaul Shah, Marja Liisa Swantz, Peter Taylor, Tom Wakeford, Eliud Wakawabubi, Alice Welbourn.