The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks
Climatic events are predicted to increase in magnitude and frequency as the climate changes, notably impacting poor and vulnerable communities across the Tropics. The urgency to better understand and improve communities' resilience is reflected in international agreements such as the Paris Agre...
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| author | Beauchamp, E Moskeland, A Milner-Gulland, E Hirons, M Ruli, B Byg, A Dougill, A Jew, E Keane, A Malhi, Y McNicol, I Morel, A Whitfield, S Morris, R |
| author_facet | Beauchamp, E Moskeland, A Milner-Gulland, E Hirons, M Ruli, B Byg, A Dougill, A Jew, E Keane, A Malhi, Y McNicol, I Morel, A Whitfield, S Morris, R |
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| description | Climatic events are predicted to increase in magnitude and frequency as the climate changes, notably impacting poor and vulnerable communities across the Tropics. The urgency to better understand and improve communities' resilience is reflected in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the multiplication of adaptation research and action programmes. In turn, the need for collecting and communicating evidence on the climate resilience of communities has drawn increased questions on how to assess resilience. While empirical case studies are often used to delve into the context-specific nature of resilience, synthesising results is essential to produce generalisable findings at the scale at which policies are designed. Yet datasets, methods and modalities for local cross-case analyses from individual studies are still rare in climate resilience. We use empirical case studies on the impacts of El Niño on smallholder households from five countries to test the application of quantitative data aggregation for policy recommendation. We standardised data into an aggregated dataset to explore how key demographic factors affected the impact of climate shocks, modelled as crop loss. We find that while cross-study results partially align with the findings from the individual projects and with theory, several challenges associated with quantitative aggregation remain when examining complex, contextual and multi-dimensional concepts such as resilience. We conclude that future exercises synthesising cross-site empirical evidence in climate resilience could accelerate research to policy impact by using mixed methods, focusing on specific landscapes or regional scales, and facilitating research through shared frameworks and learning exercises. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8ede38da-1afb-4c9f-a80b-a9deb80b4d832022-03-26T23:00:33ZThe role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocksJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8ede38da-1afb-4c9f-a80b-a9deb80b4d83Symplectic Elements at OxfordIOP Science2019Beauchamp, EMoskeland, AMilner-Gulland, EHirons, MRuli, BByg, ADougill, AJew, EKeane, AMalhi, YMcNicol, IMorel, AWhitfield, SMorris, RClimatic events are predicted to increase in magnitude and frequency as the climate changes, notably impacting poor and vulnerable communities across the Tropics. The urgency to better understand and improve communities' resilience is reflected in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the multiplication of adaptation research and action programmes. In turn, the need for collecting and communicating evidence on the climate resilience of communities has drawn increased questions on how to assess resilience. While empirical case studies are often used to delve into the context-specific nature of resilience, synthesising results is essential to produce generalisable findings at the scale at which policies are designed. Yet datasets, methods and modalities for local cross-case analyses from individual studies are still rare in climate resilience. We use empirical case studies on the impacts of El Niño on smallholder households from five countries to test the application of quantitative data aggregation for policy recommendation. We standardised data into an aggregated dataset to explore how key demographic factors affected the impact of climate shocks, modelled as crop loss. We find that while cross-study results partially align with the findings from the individual projects and with theory, several challenges associated with quantitative aggregation remain when examining complex, contextual and multi-dimensional concepts such as resilience. We conclude that future exercises synthesising cross-site empirical evidence in climate resilience could accelerate research to policy impact by using mixed methods, focusing on specific landscapes or regional scales, and facilitating research through shared frameworks and learning exercises. |
| spellingShingle | Beauchamp, E Moskeland, A Milner-Gulland, E Hirons, M Ruli, B Byg, A Dougill, A Jew, E Keane, A Malhi, Y McNicol, I Morel, A Whitfield, S Morris, R The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title | The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title_full | The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title_fullStr | The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title_short | The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
| title_sort | role of quantitative cross case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers adaptive capacity to climate shocks |
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