Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Eriksen, Siri"
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Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?
Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, Emma Lisa; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nikolai; Harding, Brian; Khatri, Dil B.; Lenaerts, Lutgart; Liverman, Diana; Mosberg, Marianne; Movik, Synne; Muok, Benard; Nightingale, Andrea; Ojha, Hemant; Sygna, Linda; Taylor, Marcus; Vogel, Coleen; West, Jennifer Joy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute ... -
Agricultural investments for development in Tanzania: reconciling actors, strategies and logics?
West, Jennifer Joy (PhD Thesis;2017:63, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Agricultural investments carry opportunities and risks for smallholders, rural communities, and the environment. This thesis investigates the potentials and limitations of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in ... -
Agricultural transformation through Climate-smart agriculture : a study on power relations in the climate-smart villages of Hoima District, Uganda
Vetrhus, Ingvild Guro Larsen (Master thesis, 2019)Adaptation in a technical form and meaning is no longer enough if world populations are to be able to live with, reduce and withstand the impacts of climate change (Pelling, 2011). Various approaches to adaptation, such ... -
Asking the right questions in adaptation research and practice: Seeing beyond climate impacts in rural Nepal
Ensor, Jonathan Edward; Wennstroem, Patrick; Bhatterai, Anil; Nightingale, Andrea Joslyn; Eriksen, Siri; Sillmann, Jana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Adaptation research and practice too often overlooks the wider social context within which climate change is experienced. Mainstream approaches frame adaptation problems in terms of the consequences that flow from biophysical ... -
Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
Nightingale, Andrea Joslyn; Eriksen, Siri; Taylor, Marcus; Forsyth, Timothy; Pelling, Mark; Newsham, Andrew; Boyd, Emily; Brown, Katrina; Harvey, Blane; Jones, Lindsey; Kerr, Rachel Bezner; Mehta, Lyla; Næss, Lars Otto; Ockwell, David; Scoones, Ian; Tanner, Thomas; Whitfield, Stephen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)ABSTRACT Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements ... -
Conference Summary Report: The politics of climate change adaptation: Taking stock of academic and practitioner experiences. 20 and 21 October 2014, Vitenparken, NMBU
Mosberg, Marianne; Eriksen, Siri (Noragric report;73, Report, 2014-12) -
Food security, drought and politics : Kenya's maize crisis before and after elections
Mwangi, Christine Wachu (Master thesis, 2020)Climatic catastrophes affect living conditions and especially the agricultural sector. There is recognition that weather is one the main drivers of food insecurity in Kenya. Nations that are politically stable tend to ... -
Forest adjacent households’ voices on their perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in Kilombero District, Tanzania
Balama, Chelestino; Augustino, Suzana; Eriksen, Siri; Makonda, Fortunatus B.S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Climate change is a global and local challenge to both sustainable livelihoods and economic development. Tanzania as other countries of the world has been affected. Several studies have been conducted on farmers’ perceptions ... -
Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate : guiding principles for practitioners
Nagoda, Sigrid; Mosberg, Marianne; Eriksen, Siri (Noragric report;84, Report, 2018) -
Introduction: Courting Catastrophe? Can Humanitarian Actions Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation?
Eriksen, Siri; Næss, Lars Otto; Haug, Ruth; Lenaerts, Lutgart; Bhonagiri, Aditi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with ... -
Local institutions responses to climate governance policies in adaptation to climate change : a case of small scale farmers in Alego Usonga-Siaya County in Kenya
Shilaho, Haron Alusiola (Master thesis, 2016-11-21)Alego Usonga-Siaya County in Kenya can be considered a climate change vulnerable area with larger population dependent on substance and rain-fed farming and other social-economic activities. Drawing on national climate ... -
The politics of disaster vulnerability: Flooding, post-disaster interventions and water governance in Baltistan, Pakistan
Arifeen, Awais; Eriksen, Siri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper uses governance of water infrastructure in two settlements of Baltistan as an entry point to examine the co-production of power and vulnerability. Access to water and irrigated land is a critical factor in ... -
Putting 'vulnerable groups' at the centre of adaptation interventions by promoting transformative adaptation as a learning process
Taylor, Marcus; Eriksen, Siri; Vincent, Katharine; Brooks, Nick; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Schipper, Lisa (Report, 2022)This report is a follow up and deepening of the working paper, “Climate change interventions and vulnerability reduction in developing countries: Challenges and leverage points for transformation”. In that backgrounder, ... -
Reproducing vulnerability through climate change adaptation? : policy processes, local power relations and food insecurity in North-Western Nepal
Nagoda, Sigrid (PhD Thesis;2016:14, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)This dissertation examines the role of politics in driving vulnerability in rural households in western Nepal. More specifically, based on empirical data collected through extensive fieldwork in four villages in the district ... -
What does climate change adaptation mean for humanitarian assistance? Guiding principles for policymakers and practitioners
Nagoda, Sigrid; Eriksen, Siri; Hetland, Øivind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)