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

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dc.creatorSmucker, Thomas A.
dc.creatorWisner, Ben
dc.creatorMascarenhas, Adolfo
dc.creatorMunishi, Pantaleo
dc.creatorWangui, Elizabeth E.
dc.creatorSinha, Gaurav
dc.creatorWeiner, Daniel
dc.creatorBwenge, Charles
dc.creatorLovell, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-19T12:55:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:21:38Z
dc.date.available2022-05-19T12:55:29Z
dc.date.created2022-05-19T12:55:29Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-02
dc.description.abstractThis 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.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4186
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/97199
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectClimate change adaptation
dc.subjectAdaptation policy
dc.subjectDevelopment policy
dc.subjectLocal institutions
dc.subjectLivelihoods
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titleDifferentiated livelihoods, local institutions, and the adaptation imperative: assessing climate change adaptation policy in Tanzania
dc.typeArticle

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