Recent Submissions

  • Notes on Contributors 

    Unknown author (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
  • Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development 

    Tanner, Thomas; Allouche, Jeremy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    In this article, the authors propose a new political economy of climate change and development in which explicit attention is given to the way that ideas, power and resources are conceptualised, negotiated and implemented ...
  • Towards an Understanding of the Political Economy of the PPCR 

    Seballos, Fran; Kreft, Sönke (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    While an analysis of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is inseparable from wider discussion on adaptation finance, this article primarily focuses on the drivers and ideologies that shaped the PPCR governance ...
  • The Political Dimension of Vulnerability: Implications for the Green Climate Fund 

    Klein, Richard J.T.; Möhner, Annett (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    As the availability of adaptation finance for developing countries increases, so does the need for a transparent way of prioritising countries for the allocation of money. It is intuitive that some countries are more ...
  • Understanding the Political Economy of the Adaptation Fund 

    Harmeling, Sven; Kaloga, Alpha O. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    The Adaptation Fund has become a fully operational institution for international adaptation finance. We explore different aspects of political economy, addressing the international institutional competition which influenced ...
  • Forest Voices: Competing Narratives over REDD+ 

    Hiraldo, Rocío; Tanner, Thomas (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (known collectively as REDD+) initiative has emerged as a means through which individuals, projects and communities in developing countries can be financially ...
  • The Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development Planning in Bangladesh 

    Alam, Khurshid; Shamsuddoha, Md; Tanner, Thomas; Sultana, Moshahida; Huq, Muhammad Jahedul; Kabir, Sumaiya S. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    Following three major disasters in 2007, Bangladesh intensified its effort to tackle climate change through development of the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP). The process of plan formulation ...
  • Prioritising PPCR Investments in Mozambique: The Politics of ‘Country Ownership’ and ‘Stakeholder Participation’ 

    Shankland, Alex; Chambote, Raul (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    Mozambique is both one of the poorest countries and one with the highest level of vulnerability to multiple potential consequences of climate change, including drought, flood, sea level rise and increased frequency and ...
  • Indigenous Peoples and the Regulation of REDD+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds? 

    Shankland, Alex; Hasenclever, Leonardo (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    This article focuses on the actors, interests and ideologies shaping Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) regulation in Brazil, with a particular focus on indigenous territories. It examines ...
  • Negotiating Climate Resilience in Nepal 

    Ayers, Jessica; Kaur, Nanki; Anderson, Simon (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    One of the key drivers of the global political economy of climate change is the evolving financial architecture; yet there is little research into how this plays out at the national level. How will the new ideas and ...
  • The Political Economy of Clean Development in India: CDM and Beyond 

    Newell, Peter; Phillips, Jon; Purohit, Pallav (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    Global policies and instruments to tackle climate change look very different once translated into domestic programmes of action, reflecting varied institutional capacity, competing priorities, and diverse political cultures ...
  • Bridging Research and Policy Processes for Climate Change Adaptation 

    Naess, Lars Otto; Polack, Emily; Chinsinga, Blessings (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    This article addresses the link between research on adaptation to climate change and the related policy environment in which it operates. Drawing on recent case studies under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) ...
  • Meteorologists Meeting Rainmakers: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Policy Processes in Kenya 

    Guthiga, Paul; Newsham, Andrew (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    This article seeks to shed light on policy processes arising from interaction between indigenous rainmakers and meteorologists, in participatory action research aimed at increasing the capacity of a local community to adapt ...
  • The Political Economy of Adaptation through Crop Diversification in Malawi 

    Chinsinga, Blessings; Mangani, Ronald; Mvula, Peter (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)
    This article demonstrates the politics of the policy processes of adaptation using the case of crop diversification. Competing narratives among different actors illustrate the complexity of practically translating crop ...
  • Glossary 

    Unknown author (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)