Land, livelihood, poverty: assessment of selected socio-economic factors influencing community adaptive capacity to climate change

Abstract: "This study provides insights on selected socioeconomic factors that influence community vulnerability to climate change variability and extremes in the Philippines, with particular focus on data generated from the vulnerability assessment conducted in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The city government of Bayawan has invested financial resources in physical infrastructure and environmental mitigating measures, and has established a working system for disaster preparedness, rescue and relief. Current socio-economic conditions, however, hamper the ability of some members of the coastal communities in this city to effectively adapt to immediate and long term risks posed by climate change without external support from the local government and other organizations. Despite yearly risks from flooding and effects of strong typhoons that threatened their health, lives and properties, families that are landless, marginalized and impoverished continued to settle illegally on rive

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 48 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: COMCAD Working Papers ; Bd. 94

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bielefeld
• (when): 2011
• Creator: Butardo-Toribio, Maria Zita ; Tenefrancia, Erjien R.
• Contributor: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-369551
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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