Differentiated livelihoods, local institutions, and the adaptation imperative: assessing climate change adaptation policy in Tanzania

Smucker, Thomas A.; Wisner, Ben; Mascarenhas, Adolfo; Munishi, Pantaleo; Wangui, Elizabeth E.; Sinha, Gaurav; Weiner, Daniel; Bwenge, Charles; Lovell, Eric

dc.creator	Smucker, Thomas A.
dc.creator	Wisner, Ben
dc.creator	Mascarenhas, Adolfo
dc.creator	Munishi, Pantaleo
dc.creator	Wangui, Elizabeth E.
dc.creator	Sinha, Gaurav
dc.creator	Weiner, Daniel
dc.creator	Bwenge, Charles
dc.creator	Lovell, Eric
dc.date	2022-05-19T12:55:29Z
dc.date	2022-05-19T12:55:29Z
dc.date	2014-10-02
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T08:50:46Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T08:50:46Z
dc.identifier	https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4186
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90618
dc.description	This paper interrogates the framings and priorities of adaptation in Tanzania’s climate policy and examines the implications for the role of local institutions and differentiated rural populations in climate change adaptation. Although Tanzania lacks a ‘‘stand alone’’ climate policy, Tanzania’s National Adapta- tion Programme of Action (NAPA) and National Climate Change Strategy (NCCS) provide the most com- prehensive statements of the central government’s framing of adaptation and its priorities with regard to adaptation. In assessing discursive framings of adaptation, we find that the dominant policy discourse constructs an anti-politics of adaptation through its framing of climate change as an urgent and general- ized threat to development while failing sufficiently to address the complex governance and social equity dimensions of climate change adaptation. The technocratic prescriptions of Tanzania’s NAPA and NCSS converge with similar prescriptions found in Tanzania’s national development policies, such as the major agricultural development initiative Kilimo Kwanza. Adaptation challenges identified by communities in Mwanga District demonstrate complex local institutional and resource tenure questions that are not addressed in climate policy but which require policy attention if social equity in climate change adapta- tion is to be achieved.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.subject	Climate change adaptation
dc.subject	Adaptation policy
dc.subject	Development policy
dc.subject	Local institutions
dc.subject	Livelihoods
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.title	Differentiated livelihoods, local institutions, and the adaptation imperative: assessing climate change adaptation policy in Tanzania
dc.type	Article