Community–based adaptation to climate change
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of community–based adaptation (CBA) efforts. To start, it develops and describes a framework on adaptation to climate change used as the
CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
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A literature review of the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change on women’s and men’s assets and well-being in developing countries
Climate change increasingly affects the livelihoods of people, and poor people experience especially negative impacts given their lack of capacity to prepare for and cope with the effects of a changing
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Forest conflict in Asia and the role of collective action in its management
Forest conflict in Asia is on the rise as various stakeholders have different views about and interests in the management of increasingly scarce resources. Unfortunately, in many instances, local communities
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Rethinking rehabilitation: socio-ecology of tanks and water harvesting in Rajasthan, North-West India
This paper assesses a strategy proposed for rehabilitating 1200 of the larger tanks in Rajasthan. It argues that treating tanks only as flow irrigation systems—which lies at the center of the mainstream thinking on rehabilitating surface irrigation systems--is very likely to result in a flawed strategy when applied to tanks.